Quotes about Determination

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Taking responsibility for where you are in life at this moment is your foundation for success. It means you accept responsibility for the things you do and the things you fail to do. Living an excuse-free life starts you on the pathway to success.

He who flees will fight again...

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.