Quotes About Determination

There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Let us, then, be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Perserverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

side. "I'm going to be the best bookmark that ever held a place in a book. Look out, world, here comes Hank." Oh, and by the way, about the tuna casserole: If you ever see even a glop of it on your plate, change plates. I didn't, and my tongue is still not talking to me.

Successful people MAKE themselves do the things unsuccessful people will not do.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...

A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less speak about it, but must only attend to one's own work. And he did his work, giving his whole strength to the task.

If a man has the will he can learn anything.

Go to the devil, I'm busy.

If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You're in the right; but I'm going all the same.

Can't you go tomorrow?' she said. 'No, I can't! The business I'm going for, the warrant and the money, won't have come by tomorrow,' he replied.

When she went upstairs to dress, and looked into the looking glass, she noticed with joy that it was one of her good days, and that she was in complete possession of all her forces,—she needed this so for what lay before her: she was conscious of external composure and free grace in her movements.

Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing with it. He took the piece out of his mouth, put on his overcoat and went out to walk about again.

Blizzard or no blizzard I start out. So business gets done. They think money making is a joke. No, take pains and rack your brains.

To settle the matter in his own mind was one thing but to carry it out was another.

So much the worse for you!" he said mentally, like a man who, after vainly attempting to extinguish a fire, should fly in a rage with his vain efforts and say, "Oh, very well then! you shall burn for this!