* The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock

* I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Alva Edison

* 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.
Alexander Graham Bell

* You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Jimmy Carter

* Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle

* A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
John Christian Bovee

* Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

* To know just what has to be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Sir William Osler

* The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

* The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister

* The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi

* The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

* If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

* But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Lord Byron