Quotes on Determination

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God.

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.