Quotes About Determination

A champion isn't about how much they win, it's about how they recover from their downs.

A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they recover when they fall. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. I've had to learn to fight all my life-got to learn to keep smiling.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins,but by how they can recover when they fall.

No other person can have power over you or your destiny unless you decide to let him or her have it.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

There is no such thing as an unsolvable problem.

When we acknowledge that human beings have the right to choose, we deprive ourselves of it

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

If the wise men mounted their camels now, they could escape, no question. But Balthazar hadn't ridden into Bethlehem to run. He'd come to kill every last one of them, or die trying.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain that all five of them were capable of fending for themselves; that they could make tolerable fortunes as bodyguards, assassins, or mercenaries if need be.

That righteous anger quickly sharpens into determination. Determination, of course, being nothing more than anger with brakes and a steering wheel.

Nothing would surprise him. Nothing could anymore. But it didn't matter. Even if it meant the most painful, hideous death a human being had ever experienced, they weren't getting the baby, and they weren't getting her. Twenty yards… He gripped the handle of his sword tightly…?breathed deep of the desert air. Okay, Balthazar…let's die.

Determination, of course, being nothing more than anger with brakes and a steering wheel.

Plant your feet and stand firm. The only question is where to put your feet.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

In answer to them, the youth, standing up in the Hall of Heroes, with spear in one hand, and shield in the other, exclaimed: "I care not whether I die to-morrow or next year, if only my deeds live after me.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.