quotes on determination

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ~George Bernard Shaw



The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. ~Jennifer Yane



Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. ~Gene Perret



One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~M.M. Musselman



We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ~Rudyard Kipling



If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi



It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979



Bill Hemmer: "You said cancer changes your life, and oftentimes for the better."



Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again. ~Leslie Newman



It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~Author Unknown



Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire



Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush. ~Horace



Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin



Everything in life is luck. ~Donald Trump



And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko



All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot



History is written by the winners. ~Alex Haley



Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? ~Douglas Jerrold