best quotations about
Determination |
and Dedication
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Quotations
 | When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 20 likes |
 | You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 15 likes |
 | At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 11 likes |
 | The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 10 likes |
 | This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never! — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 10 likes |
| We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall f — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 9 likes |
 | It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 8 likes |
 | It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 8 likes |
 | America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 6 likes |
 | It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 6 likes |
| Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 5 likes |
| It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes |
 | If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 4 likes |
 | If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 4 likes |
 | Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | Supreme achievement and outstanding capacity are only rendered possible by mental concentration, by a sublime monomania that verges on lunacy. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
 | One must give the conquest of a woman the attention one gives to a game of billiards. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 1 likes |
 | Find what you love and let it kill you. |
 | Start all over again and this time, concentrate. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer (to a young Ernest Hemingway) |
 | The most important thing in life is to stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will.” Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. |
 | In the Nazi concentration camps the most able to survive were the prisoners who had a job to do after their release. |
 | It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. |
 | If I were dying, my last words would be, “Have faith and pursue the unknown end.” |
 | Perfection can be achieved only through devotion, for devotion is the basis of all success. |
| The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort. |
 | Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. |
 | If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome. |
 | Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. |
 | No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. |
 | You can not walk the path unless you become the path. |
Personal Stories
 | I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 7 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Dedicate your life to truth. Vitam impendere vero. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 88 likes |
 | Do what you do. Age quot agis. (without distractions) 61 likes |
Quotes in Verse
| I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 9 likes |
