Quotes about Determination

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.

Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.