Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need purning by study.
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and the alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
Struggle
is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity
that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world,
but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
Only
in men's imagination does everything truth find an effective and
undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master
of art as of life.
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have of things.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the god.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things
I never wonder to see an wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
We
are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be,
we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has Benn the
result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we
wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have
to know how to act.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a
thistle and planted a flower where thought a flower would grow.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes coward of men.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something.Don't just stand there, make it happen.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a
day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had
everything to do, and you've done it.
It's not the having, it's the getting.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
A traveler of taste will notice that wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen.
We will either find a way, or make one!
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
An invincible determination
can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction
between great men and little men.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
So long as there is breath in me, that
long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on
success; if I persist long enough I will win.
It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
A man can be as great as he wants to be.
If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the
dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice
the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are
worthwhile, it can be done.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
What this power is I cannot say; all I
know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in
that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully
determined not to quit until he finds it.
If you doubt you can accomplish
something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in
your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.
Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through!
If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
