Quotes about Determination

The "capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged" is "the chief asset of every man who attains outstanding success in any calling.

The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant purposes — but that strong and indefatigable will which treads down difficulties and danger, as a boy treads down the heaving frost-lands of winter, which kindles his eye and brain with proud pulse beat toward the unattainable. WILL MAKES MEN GIANTS!

Life, itself, is a great chariot race, and the victory goes only to those who have developed the strength of character and determination and willpower to win.

All men have become what they are, because of their dominating thoughts and desires.

keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

The object is to want money, and to become so determined to have it that you convince yourself you will have it.

More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known, told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, "but," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to ORDER.

I believe in the power of DESIRE backed by FAITH, because I have seen this power lift men from lowly beginnings to places of power and wealth; I have seen it rob the grave of its victims; I have seen it serve as the medium by which men staged a comeback after having been defeated in a hundred different ways; I have seen it provide my own son with a normal, happy, successful life, despite Nature's having sent him into the world without ears.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.