Determination Quotes

"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." "Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing." "Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles" "Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears" "Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew" "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful" "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd" "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn" "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult" "You want to be a surgeon? Earn it. Stop being a lump on a log. Do something" "I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart. I am talented. I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don't call me lucky. Call me a badass" "Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer" "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go" "I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create" "The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard" "I have had all of the disadvantages required for success" "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."