determination quotes

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

People want you to fail.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.