Quotes March 12, 2019

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
Og Mandino
 
 
 
 
“Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired that you have to shuffle back to the centre of the ring, fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.”
James Corbett
 
 
 
 
“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”
Alexander Graham Bell
 
 
 
 
“Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.”
Dr. A. B. Meldrum
 
 
 
 
“Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 
“Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.”
Burt Lawlor
 
 
 
 
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
Napoleon Hill
 
 
 
 
“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.”
Samuel Johnson
 
 
 
 
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
 
 
 
 
“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.”
Hannah Arendt
 
 
 
 
They say love will find a way. I know determination will.”
Ronnie Milsap
 
 
 
 
“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”
Channing Pollock
 
 
 
 
“It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
William Somerset Maugham
 
 
 
 
“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.”
Tom Hopkins
 
 
 
 
“The longer I live, the surer I become that the truest real difference between the success and the failure, between the strong and the weak, between the rich and the poor, between the great and the average, is just plain will power, invincible determination, a purpose once set and then death or victory. And no fine manners, education or brilliance, no talent, opportunity or culture can make any two-legged creature a man without it.”
Sir Thomas Buxton
 
 
 
 
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.”
Jacob Riis
 
 
 
 
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”
Tommy Lasorda
 
 
 
 

“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.”
Cory Doctorow