Quotes About Determination

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success.

Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.

The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

Action is the foundation of all success.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

Success equals goals; all else is commentary

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.