determination quotes

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

The best way out is always through.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Nothing will work unless you do.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

There is no substitute for victory.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.