determination Quotes

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.