Quotes about Determination
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
- Catherine of Siena
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
- Teresa of Avila
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
- George Eliot
Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
- Anonymous
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
Faith is necessary to victory.
- William Hazlitt
Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.
- Martin Luther
The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
- Maria Edgeworth
I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
- David Starr Jordan