Edmund Hillary Quotes

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

When I decide to do something, I do it.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.

When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.

To finish first you must first finish.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

The bottom line is, you really have to commit to something if you're going to be successful in it.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

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

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

The key to all things is determination.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

When a woman makes up her mind, she gets what she wants.