Quotes About Determination

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

I'm sorry, okay, I'm not perfect, but I'm trying.

Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.   But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's souls.

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

So much depends upon our willingness to make up our minds, collectively and individually, that our present levels of performance are not acceptable, either to ourselves or to the Lord. In saying that, I am not calling for flashy, temporary differences in our performance levels, but a quiet resolve to do the better job, to lengthen our stride.

I have made up my mind that when I go home form this general conference... there are many, many areas in my life that I can perfect. I have made a mental list of them, and I expect to go to work as soon as we get through.

To fill the jugs we kneel on jagged rock and force them underwater, using the muscle mechanics you'd use drowning a hippo. We

runner-cum-slave

You know, Susey," he said, "they ruined a hell of a man when they cut the balls off you!" O'Malley never was one to tiptoe around a thing.

You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

There is nothing impossible in the world if you are determined. The

Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work

If people are not inspired from within, it will not be possible to build a good work ethic. Work

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Press on where truth begins to dawn.

But that all things come to pass by fate, we do not say; nay we affirm that nothing comes to pass by fate; for we demonstrate that the name of fate, as it is wont to be used by those who speak of fate, meaning thereby the position of the stars at the time of each one's conception or birth, is an unmeaning word, for astrology itself is a delusion.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

First do the necessary, then do the feasible, then you will be able to achieve the impossible.

But a dauntless faith believes

darling Eloise. You own the space you take up in this world. Abraham Lincoln said, 'You have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.' You stand straight and proud in every inch of your magnificence. Otherwise you let me and all our blessed sisters of substance down." She