Quotes about Determination

Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!

I know what I want up to the age of two hundred. Know what you want in life and go after it. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

After a while, he went back to his task; he decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.

I'm not going to help you pretend—by arguing with you—that the reality you're talking about is not what it is, that there's still a way to make it work and to save your neck. There isn't.

The status was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it. All that Dagny wanted of life was contained in the desire to hold her head as he did.

He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.

One doesn't get to be first in anything without the strength to make some sacrifices.

to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay—that

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

I think that it's a sin to sit down and let your life go, without making a try for it.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.