Determination Quotes

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

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

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

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.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

As I assume my responsibilities as your representative, I wish to assure you of my loyalty and devotions, as well of my determination to serve you and the people of Canada to the utmost of my abilities.