Quotes about Determination

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

For every ten men who are physically lazy there are ten thousand with stagnant minds. And stagnant minds are the breeding places of fear.

The object of concentrating upon a definite aim is to train the mind until it forms the habit of focusing upon that aim.

You will become what you want to be because of the dominating thoughts that you permit to occupy your mind.

The person who forms the habit of directing his attention to the important facts out of which he is constructing his Temple of Success, thereby provides himself with a power which may be likened to a triphammer which strikes a ten-ton blow as compared to a tack-hammer which strikes a one-pound blow!

Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, can accomplish.

Note the Strong Man. He sees a thing to do and immediately DOES it. The thing may look trivial. It may even seem the work of some other fellow. But without hesitancy, as though dispute was greater than the task, the Strong Man gets the thing Done — so that he may have Time for other and Bigger things.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

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

The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant purposes — but that strong and indefatigable will which treads down difficulties and danger, as a boy treads down the heaving frost-lands of winter, which kindles his eye and brain with proud pulse beat toward the unattainable. WILL MAKES MEN GIANTS!

Life, itself, is a great chariot race, and the victory goes only to those who have developed the strength of character and determination and willpower to win.