Quotes About Determination

If you want something bad enough, you find a way to make it happen. - Seamus McKay

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

If he had wished, he could have annexed Denmark; and ended a thousand years of war and history. But Charles had no weaknesses; now and thereafter he was behaving out of a book. The first maxim of Alexanderism is never to stop; Charles continued.

So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as someone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. - Ted Williams

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

William C. Davis

Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

That which is possible is inevitable.

you have enemies? Good. That means you've stuck up for yourself sometime in your life.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

You never know what you can do till you try.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

In those days kitchen matches were heavy-duty implementsmore like signal flares than the weedy sticks we get today. You could strike them on any hard surface and fling them at least fifteen feet and they wouldnt go out. Indeed, even when being beaten vigorously with two hands, as when lodged on the front of ones sweater, they seemed positively determined not to fail.

You know that I am a great believer that the faults of people are very often more determining than their qualities.

It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.

Neither had any interest in compromise or conciliation.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.