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
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
The thing that contributes to anyone’s reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough. -Charles E. Wilson (1886-1972)
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. -Robert Hughes
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. -Channing Pollock
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. -Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy – invincible determination–a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. -Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. -Tommy Lasorda
To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn’t prepared to suffer during adversities, I don’t really see how he can be successful. -Gary Player
If at first you don’t succeed-try, try again. Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success. -Robert Orben
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. -Gail Devers
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. -Brian Tracy
This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor. It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure… Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers. -Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924)
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. -George Lorimer
If you must begin, then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. -Chogyam Trungpa
If a ship has sunk, I can’t bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can’t stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow’s problem than fretting about yesterday’s. -Ernest J. King
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men. -B.C. Forbes
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850-1919
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