Quotes about Determination

All men have become what they are, because of their dominating thoughts and desires.

keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

The object is to want money, and to become so determined to have it that you convince yourself you will have it.

More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known, told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, "but," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to ORDER.

I believe in the power of DESIRE backed by FAITH, because I have seen this power lift men from lowly beginnings to places of power and wealth; I have seen it rob the grave of its victims; I have seen it serve as the medium by which men staged a comeback after having been defeated in a hundred different ways; I have seen it provide my own son with a normal, happy, successful life, despite Nature's having sent him into the world without ears.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

One of the chief characteristics of Barnes' Desire was that it was definite.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining the state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.

First. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire.

I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.