determination Quotes

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.