Quotes About Determination

Okay," he said slowly as his ulcer came back with friends. "To certain death, dismemberment, and undignified screams, let us march!

One thing about Southern women, they were tough. No one said no and got away with it. Especially not when it came to a loved one.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.

Don't convince yourself you're over, don't convince yourself you're done, just because the things around you seem heavy, doesn't mean you can't get off this ground.

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.

If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand it.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

My big goal in life is to prove people wrong.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

I'm living life right now, maine and this what Imma do til it's over, til it's over.. but it's far from over.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

All my life has been about proving myself.

I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.