Quotes on Determination

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.