Quotes on Determination

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

The best way out is always through.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.