Quotes About Determination

Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

I'm sick of Soup Of The Day, man. It's time we make a decision. I need to know what Soup From Now On is.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Success means getting up 1 more time than you get knocked down.

Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'- and tore it up.

Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll —

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain

This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.