Determination Quotes
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.
The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
When the quest of a dream has a detour or dip, look beyond your dismay and go finish the trip.
Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.
Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.
Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.
My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!
Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
What I love about the East End is that theres a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.
WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.
Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.
My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.
If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.