Quotes about Determination

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.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life, not on what you don't want.

nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized

OPPORTUNITY has spread its wares before you. Step up to the front, select what you want, create your plan, put the plan into action, and follow through with PERSISTENCE.

The salesman who knows how to take his mind off the subject of sex, and direct it in sales effort with as much enthusiasm and determination as he would apply to its original purpose, has acquired the art of sex transmutation, whether he knows it or not.

But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win.

Hope brightens the Eye, squares the Jaw and stiffens the Backbone. Hope is the invisible picture of Success. Hope, Hope, Hope — Accumulate Hope.