determination

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.

And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.

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

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it. . . The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

We had our guns. People determined to stand up for themselves survived . . . the looters went somewhere else.