Quotes About Determination

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I am the captain of my soul.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Quitting is leading too.

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

life has a way of forcing decisions on those who vacillate.

If I had my time over I would do the same again, so would any man who dares call himself a man.

Difficulties break some men but make others

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. From a letter to Winnie Mandela,

Never forget that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

women had not weakened in their resolve to resist.

El hombre valiente no es el que no siente miedo, sino el que es capaz de conquistarlo.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

after years of imprisonment, physical and emotional abuse, and separation from his family, Mandela said, "I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away." So Mandela's story is really the story of those two things he never gave away: his brilliant mind, and his great heart.

One day, George Mbekela paid a visit to my mother. "Your son is a clever young fellow," he said. "He should go to school." My mother remained silent. No one in my family had ever attended school and my mother was unprepared for Mbekela's suggestion. But she did relay it to my father, who despite—or perhaps because of—his own lack of education immediately decided that his youngest son should go to school. The

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

Je ne perds jamais. Soit je gagne, soit j'apprends.