Quotes About Determination

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

He ventured neck or nothing—heaven's successFound, or earth's failure.

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,And baffled, get up and begin again.

No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,The heroes of old,Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrearsOf pain, darkness, and cold.

But little do or can the best of us:That little is achieved through Liberty.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?