Dogged Determination Quotes

#1. I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No one would have the audacity to die when you are doctoring them.

Elizabeth Peters

#2. Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do

Paul Meyer

#5. There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

Jeb Bush

#6. Ari looks fiercely resolute. It's the same look she has on her face at the start of every race: Dogged determination. My heart and head enter into full-on combat mode.

Siobhan Davis

#7. Perhaps the most important attitude for cultivating good fortune is a strong sense of perseverance. Many of the people in this book faced considerable constraints in finding the Element and managed to do it through sheer, dogged determination. None more so than Brad Zdanivsky.

Ken Robinson

#8. Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never replace sheer dogged determination.

Barbara Michaels

#9. Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.

Johann Lamont

#11. The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

Sigmund Freud

#12. If you believe in yourself, somebody will find you that believes in you just as much, if not more.

Shantel VanSanten

#13. The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the people who are using your energy in an unsatisfying way. You have to take that risk of being friendless to make room in your life for others who will be your new best friends

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

Shay Mitchell

#15. I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.

Richard Leakey

#16. There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Edward Young

#17. Halloa!" the guard replied. "What o'clock do you make it, Joe?" "Ten minutes, good, past eleven.

Charles Dickens

#18. When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#19. There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.

Mildred D. Taylor

#20. If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

#21. I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

Jesse Ventura

#22. I happen to find ceilings much lovelier than the night sky myself. Sometimes I just stare at them for hours and wonder what could be up there.

Bauvard