Quotes About Determination

September 14th, 2009

There are a few things in life that occur, that you don't ask for, that are just dealt to you. These things can define you or you can define yourself through them. I elect to define myself through overcoming what has been dealt to me in my life. It took thirty-one years and two generations of tweaking to get my first perfect ending. Now I am going to work on my next one.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade And do the other things, Not because they are easy, But because they are hard, Because that goal Will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, Because that challenge Is one that we are willing to accept, One we are unwilling to postpone, And one, Which we intend to win. John F. Kennedy

Find a way. It is that simple.

Always believe.

One person with belief is worth a thousand people with only an interest.

When life throws you to your back, you need to know how not to get pinned, get off of your back and do enough to make up the difference in order to win.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on, It is going on When you don't have the strength.

You are closer to victory than you know, when you feel you just can't go on any longer. It is what makes champions who they are, the ability to muster up a little bit more when everyone else would give in. It is at that moment a tipping point usually occurs.

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

What if the greatest part of the pack have run upon a false scent, may not the hindmost dog hit it off?

'Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain." —Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroanatomist and Nobel Laureate

Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.

Leadership presence is the reflection of the leader's inner self. It should be the real deal. Presence, however, is not simply a sense of being; it is a determination of action. Leadership presence, as I wrote in 12 Steps to Power Presence, is a form of "earned authority." Authority comes from the title of a leader, but it is earned by example.

He thocht weill he wes worth na seyle, That mycht of nane anoyis feyle; And als for till escheve gret thingis, And hard trawalyis, and barganyngis, That suld ger his price dowblyt be. Quharfor, in all hys lyve tyme, he Wes in gret payn, ec gret trawaill; And neuir wald for myscheiff faill, Bot dryve the thing rycht to the end, And tak the vre that God wald send.

Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

He who challenges me, praises me!

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.

St. Thérèse could not, of course, have suffered all the attacks on the will that we endure. But she deliberately did her utmost to avoid all distraction, both before and after her entry into Carmel. ... And we, too, could seek to strengthen our will by avoiding every distraction that does not belong to our station in life, and with the will strong, even these distractions would cease to turn us more than momentarily from our path.

It ain't over now 'cuz when the going gets tough, the tough get going.