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America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.
Sep 18, 2025
Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.
Because youve done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.
So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.
He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
I had an old typewriter and a big idea.
We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.
We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.
Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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