Quotes about Determination
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.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
By perseverance the snails reached the ark.
— Charles Spurgeon
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
— George Eliot
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
— Anonymous
Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.
— Anonymous
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
— Abraham Lincoln
Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.
— Charles Spurgeon
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.
— Madeleine Albright
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
— Benjamin Disraeli
No guts, no glory.
— Anonymous
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
— Ruth Gordon