Determination

Never doubt the power of a small group of committed individuals to change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds,
everything can be changed by our minds.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then we shall find the way.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

But never forget that you can only stumble if you are moving.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

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

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

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

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

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.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today? He replied, I would finish hoeing my garden.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION---then it is attained.

The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

Love, compassion, kindness, and forgiveness determine our happiness and indeed the happiness of all beings. This realization brings one to a joyous determination to proceed on the noble path We persevere with joyous determination.