Quotes about Determination
It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.
— Tana French
There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.
— Marianne Williamson
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!
— TB Joshua
Young man, make your name worth something.
— Andrew Carnegie
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
— Charles Finney
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
— Jerry Falwell
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
— Jim Elliot
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
— Booker T. Washington
I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
— Warren G. Harding
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
— Alexander Graham Bell