determination quotes

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

Never, never, never give up.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.