Quotes About Determination

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Our mental attitude is the X factor that determines our fate.

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.

When you have said "No," all your pride of personality demands that you remain consistent with yourself. You may later feel that the "No" was ill-advised; nevertheless, there is your precious pride to consider! Once having said a thing, you feel you must stick to it.

Don't give up so easily. Stay the course. Despite what you've been told, you matter and you can accomplish something great.

Such was the spirit of the immortal Caesar. Why not make it yours, too, as you set out to conquer your fear of audiences? Throw every shred of negative thought into the consuming fires and slam doors of steel upon every escape into the irresolute past.

Todos los hombres tienen temores, pero los valientes los olvidan y van adelante, a veces hasta la muerte, pero siempre hasta la victoria." Ése era el lema de la Guardia Real en la antigua Grecia.

But that's not where the story ends.

He meant—once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts.

Never take counsel of your fears."—Motto of Stonewall Jackson

She was nineteen, had graduated from high school three years previously, and her business experience was a trifle more than zero. She became one of the most proficient secretaries west of Suez, but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

What is this magic requirement? Just this: a deep, driving desire to learn, a vigorous determination to increase your ability to deal with people.

There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.

If I were to try to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Taft said: "I don't see how I could have done any differently

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail— Be the best of whatever you are!

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Commitment is not sustained by confusion but by insight. The person who is uninformed or confused will inevitably be unstable and vulnerable in action, thought and feeling.

Preliminary 3: Deciding to Do It

You must make the decision to have Jesus with you. A decision is an inward resolve to do whatever is necessary to bring something to pass.

Strength to Please

The faith of desperation—trusting faith—digs in, holds on, clings tight, and says, "I don't care what's going to happen, I am holding on to God!

De-cide. Homo-cide. Sui-cide. Patri-cide. The root word decidere means "to cut off." All decisions cut us off, separate us from nearly infinite options as we select just one single path. And every decision we make earns us the favor of some and the disfavor of others.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL