Determination Quotes

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.

James Allen

Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.

Jules Favre

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Abraham Lincoln

The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.

N. H. Moos

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Constance Baker Motley

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

Martin Luther King Jr.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

Mark Twain

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

The impossible is often the untried.

Jim Goodwin

Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.'

Mary Kay Ash

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.

Robert H. Schuller

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse Owens