Quotes on Determination

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.Harper Lee

• courage
• determination
• persistence

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A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.William Punshon

• purpose
• determination
• persistence

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.William Feather

• determination
• persistence
• success

The successful man lengthens his stride when he discovers that the signpost has deceived him; the failure looks for a place to sit down.J. R. Rogers

• determination
• persistence

We do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts.Françoise de Maintenon

• determination
• persistence

I find in life that most affairs that require serious handling are distasteful. For this reason, I have always believed that the successful man has the hardest battle with himself rather than with the other fellow. To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.Thomas Buckner

• discipline
• determination
• persistence

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Ray Kroc

• determination
• persistence

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.Ella Wilcox

• determination
• destiny
• fate

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• will
• determination