A Quote by Thomas J. Watson

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.

Thomas J. Watson

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Bridge Built Courage Determination Dogged Endurance Faith Obstacles

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Thomas J. Watson
American - Businessman
February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956

And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't let myself give up. And that's something I didn't know about myself before - that I have such dogged determination and strength. That I can be completely focused on a goal and work long past what I thought my endurance was, when I have to.

Cheryl Rainfield

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

Endurance cannot be produced by determination alone; endurance is a product of physical exercise.

Len Smith

For years, my state of Washington tried to pass its own state Dream Act. Many Republicans weren't interested. But some thought differently after they met Dreamers and heard stories that revealed their courage, grit, and determination. It is the same determination that built America and will help it continue to thrive.

Jay Inslee

Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue.But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.

Len Smith

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

William James

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

Christopher McDougall

What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.

Dallin H. Oaks

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Jeb Bush

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Albert Einstein

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.

Richard Wurmbrand

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

Theodor Herzl

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

Frantz Fanon

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.