Quotes about Determination

Character is that which can do without success.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.

That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [158] have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted.

I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.

Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone's life the joy you want it to be.

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.

knowing does not guarantee doing. Doing engages the will and a preset commitment.