Quotes About Determination

Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

You can't go walking through Mordor in naught but your skin.

Only think of two things — the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run like hell until you break the other.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.

Fighting is a way to force something to happen.

Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

To win,you must have both talent an desire- but desire first.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

The same unceasing drive was something displayed by Russell, Puyol, Berra, Richard, and every other captain in Tier One. Early struggles culminated in a defining moment, a breakthrough that left no doubt about their desire to win at any cost. And in each case, after they had established this fact, their teams began to turn the corner. The pattern was so consistent that it suggested their doggedness might, in fact, have been contagious.

Sam Walton: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

High expectations are the key to everything.

What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it.

He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.

It is a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there.

Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.

So, as William honed his skill at Bengali, his thoughts vacillated from triumph to failure. 'Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God' he reminded himself. What could be more ambitious, festering in a muddy forest with a distraught wife, than to begin translating the Bible into Bengali?

A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.

Belief just takes steady convincing.