DETERMINATION

Only dead fish go with the current.

Author unknown

Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen

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

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Each day you must say to yourself, “Today I am going to begin.”

Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments for success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Lord Chesterfield

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

Confucius

We haven’t failed. We now know a thousand things that won’t work, so we’re that much closer to finding what will.

Thomas Edison, after many abortive experiments trying to produce a light bulb.

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Richard L. Evans

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

B.C. Forbes

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is still one of the tragedies of human history that the “children of darkness” are frequently more determined and zealous than the “children of light.”

Martin Luther King

O Lord, you give us everything, at the price of an effort.

Leonardo Da Vinci

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: “Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win … Channel your energy. Focus.

Carl Lewis

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.

Martin Luther

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson