Determination Quote by Isadora Duncan

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither…

— Isadora Duncan

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

— Matthew Arnold

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but…

— Samuel Smiles

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

— Man Ray

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.

— Henry Cloud

A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.

— Albert M. Greenfield

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to…

— Gertrude Atherton

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

— J. Arthur Thomson

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

— Edwin Percy Whipple