Quotes about Determination
You then went to the vicarage, waited outside it for some time, and finally returned to your cottage." "How do you know that?" "I followed you." "I saw no one." "That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
- George Eliot
I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.
- Harry S. Truman
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
- JRR Tolkien
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
- Brian Tracy
You must go on.I can't go on.I'll go on.
- Samuel Beckett
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there
- Zig Ziglar
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
- Elbert Hubbard