Quotes About Determination

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit'. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

I am not designed to come second or third, I am designed to win.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.