Quotes About Determination

Yeah, it's true we're all dealt a set of cards. But it's also true that it's up to us to figure out how to play the hand.

who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

Frank Bettger

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it.

Understand that when the beast within you succeeds again in paralyzing into unending incompletion whatever you again had the temerity to try to make its triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of its rectitude. It knows that it alone knows you.

Wanting to be a movie star....answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.

It's not a question of money. After you reach a certain point, money becomes unimportant. What matters is success. The sensible thing would be for me to stop now. But I can't. I have to keep aiming higher and higher just for the thrill.

Risk a lot to save a lot, risk a little to save a little, and risk nothing for what is already lost."

I always had the belief that I could beat anyone. That's what drove me on in my career.

I don't like to hurt people. I'm not that kind of person. But in the ring, it's a different story. You have to be ruthless. You have to go for the kill.

I always say that boxing is 90% mental and 10% physical. You have to be in the right frame of mind to be successful.

Boxing is not just about physical strength, it's about mental strength too. You have to be able to stay focused and keep your cool under pressure.

You have to be fearless in the ring. You can't show any weakness. You have to be confident in your abilities and believe that you can win.

I learned a lot from my losses. They made me stronger and more determined.

Wir wollten diese Finals unbedingt machen, wollten das Duell Detlef Schrempf gegen Michael Jordan ins Deutsche Fernsehen bringen. Das war unser Traum. Uns war doch völlig egal, ob das nach deutscher Zeit mitten in der Nacht war! Das interessierte uns nicht. Ganz schön egoistisch. Aber im Nachhinein zeigte sich, das ganze Schülerschaften von zwölf- bis achtzehnjährigen sich die Nächte um die Ohren schlugen, um diese Duelle zu sehen.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food--we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.

The qualities which caused him to be acclaimed the leader, he possessed when he was teaching school, and splitting rails, and reading law in a judge's musty office. From the beginning he was a man among men who always upheld the right, advocated justice for the oppressed, and a square deal for all.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.