Quotes About Determination

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

A lot of people wonder how a 21-year-old with average power (I finished 89th in driving distance) can be so successful. The answer is simple: I know how to score.

In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.

Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.