Quotes about Determination
One doesn't get to be first in anything without the strength to make some sacrifices.
- Ayn Rand
to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind's full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay—that
- Ayn Rand
Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.
- Ayn Rand
I think that it's a sin to sit down and let your life go, without making a try for it.
- Ayn Rand
You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
- Barack Obama
There is no excuse for not trying.
- Barack Obama
Don't let your failures define you.
- Barack Obama
Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.
- Barack Obama
More than anyone, this book is for those young people—an invitation to once again remake the world, and to bring about, through hard work, determination, and a big dose of imagination, an America that finally aligns with all that is best in us.
- Barack Obama
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
- Barack Obama
But know this America: we will meet them
- Barack Obama
The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.
- Barack Obama