Quotes on Determination

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcileable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honourable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood and live in the light of truth, not by external norms but by reasoned and reflective self-determination. The inward teacher is the living core of our lives that is addressed and evoked by any education worthy of the name.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.

But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got this win. Much respect to Spain, but the U.S. is back on top again.

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.