Quotes about Determination

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.

Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.

You merely picture in your mind having already accomplished or attained your goal, whatever it may be. Hold it firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.

Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

I will consider each day's effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.

Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.

I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I

Take great comfort in knowing that all great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle.

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.