Quotes about Determination
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
— George Whitefield
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
— Helen Keller
He that is down need fear no fall.
— John Bunyan
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
— Washington Irving
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
— George Eliot
It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure.
— Anonymous
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
— Napoleon Hill
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Roseanne Barr
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.
— William Hazlitt
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson