Quotes About Determination

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that.

Us going out there and performing our best. That's how I define success. I'm not going to define it for us by the wins and the losses as much as by the effort and how we handle ourselves.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.

The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools

To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)