Quotes About Determination

a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

Il faut savoir allier le pessimisme de l´intelligence à l´optimisme de la volonté.

It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb.

The anvil fears no blows.

On the other hand, if a renunciation is to be truly heroic, the thing renounced must admittedly be valuable.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fail because we lack concentration—the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Survival is an instinct, not a choice.

I guess I knowed I was taking my life in my hands when I got in that car, 'cause it was a cold day in January, but I was sweatin like a hog in August.

Bob slid his chair back and moved the coal-oil lamp from the kitchen to the sitting room. He said, "Oftentimes things seem impossible up until they're attempted." Then he lidded the chimney glass with his palm and suffocated the light.

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

All people are self-made. Only the successful people admit it.

Success seems to be connected with ACTION. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." Conrad Hilton

Prayer had fortified him. It would require an almost superhuman strength of purpose, an absolute resolve, to save my brother from himself.

Is that possible? I said. All things, all things are possible. What do you think your bike ride says? People would say "Is that possible?" Of course you know it is, now.

Nonetheless, the fact remains; he had hope in a better world he could not yet see that overwhelmed the cries of "you can't" or "you won't" or "why bother." More than anything else, mastering that faith, on cue, is what separated him from his peers, and distinguishes him from so many people in these literal, sophisticated times. It has made all the difference.

You are livin'," she says in feigned exasperation. "You just don't see what I see. You got something special. Something you got from your ma. It's a thing. I mean, I wish I had it. It's this thing where you know what it's going to take, and then you get it done. You push yourself and you get there.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Remember, your convictions are only strong if they hold up under pressure!

Broken to it, I, too may be; bow to it I never will.

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Ronald H. Spector