Yoshida Shoin Quotes

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.

The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

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

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

The key to all things is determination.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more by who you want to be.