Quotes about Determination

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a quitter. A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

the world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

Faith removes limitations!

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

The person who moves with definiteness recognizes the difference between temporary defeat and failure. When plans fail he substitutes others but he does not change his purpose. He perseveres.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.