logo

Quotes About Determination

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
~ Alexander Hamilton
By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.
~ Frank Grillo
It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.
~ Nikki Sixx
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
~ Napoleon Hill
Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature
~ Henry Clarence Thiessen
Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.
~ Richard Branson
It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
~ Elvis Presley
It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
~ Seth Godin
Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.
~ Roger L'Estrange
Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.
~ Elias Lyman Magoon
its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable
~ Suzanne Collins
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
~ John Milton
A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.
~ Zicheng Hong
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only you can change your own world. No one else.
~ Nina Hrusa
To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.
~ Jonathan Tesch
Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You are the only one who can.
~ Carroll Bryant
Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
~ Peter Morgan
No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
~ Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
~ J. Paul Getty
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
~ Plato