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Quotes About Determination

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
~ Jerry West
It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.
~ Émile Coué
I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time
~ Jimmy Connors
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
~ Leon Panetta
It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
~ Uma Thurman
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
~ Will Durant
Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.
~ Jerome Kagan
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
~ Robert Collier
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
~ John Dryden
Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.
~ David Bowie
The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
~ Stephen Covey
I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.
~ O. J. Simpson
Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.
~ Etienne Gilson
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.
~ Jean Genet
One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.
~ Deena Kastor
Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
~ Allegra Huston
Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.
~ Mike Piazza
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
~ Jim DeMint
In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.
~ Bill Rodgers