Quotes about Determination
The mighty hopes that make us men.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
— Earl Nightingale
Believe, really believe, you can move a mountain, and you can. Not many people believe that they can move mountains. So, as a result, not many people do.
— David Joseph Schwartz
I'm moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket.
— Reinhard Bonnke
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.
— Joyce Banda
I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.
— Travis Thrasher
He who despairs is wrong.
— Victor Hugo
I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
— Victor Hugo
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
— Victor Hugo
He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.
— Victor Hugo
Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
— Victor Hugo