determination Quotes

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.