Quotes About Determination

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Out of the night that covers me,Black as the Pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance,I have not winced nor cried aloud;Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

You men! Cowards. Every one of you cowards.

A gentleman can live through anything.

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go

I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would.

I continued to doubt. But I was not afraid. I just didn't want this to end.

Chick's entrance into Ivy University Law School constituted an important step forward in his social and professional career. There was still a hard struggle ahead of him. The next few years would be decisive in determining his position in society. Against that background we can understand what the Italian Community Club meant to Chick Morelli.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

William Frederick Halsey (Jr.)

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.

Sometimes any move at all is better than nothin. If you're right you're one up. If you're wrong you start over.

Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries. If you are sure you are right, do not let the voice of the world, or of friends, or of family swerve you for a moment from your purpose.

All the athletic exercises in the world are no power to the individual unless he compel those bars and dumbbells to yield to him and strengthen muscle; the power for which he himself pays in effort.

G?sesc c? numa' a?a po?i tr?i pe lume, f?când mereu câte ceva, de vrei s? nu-nnebune?ti or s? nu scobori mai jos decât câinele ultimului om.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.