Quotes about Determination

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

But I can't stay here for a week!" "You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

I've had some good times, had some bad. Took some lumps. Scored some points. Half-way through life, at 43, I still say, 'go for broke.' No government, no FBI, no judge, no jailer is ever gonna make me say 'uncle.' Now, as then, let the game continue. I bet my stake on freedom's call; I'll play these cards with no regrets.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.