Quotes About Determination

Surviving, that's my plan.

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.

There's almost nothing you can't accomplish if you set your mind to it.

When I flew back to Chicago that fateful day in 1954, I had a freshly signed contract with the McDonald brothers in my briefcase. I was a battle-scarred veteran of the business wars, but I was still eager to go into action. I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns. But I was convinced that the best was ahead of me.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

ostentatious

It was not long after the "Fold-a-Nook" fiasco that I became intrigued by the stories of the McDonald brothers and their operation that kept eight Multimixers whirring up a bucket brigade of milk shakes out there in sunny San Bernardino.

It'll be a lot of trouble," Dick McDonald objected. "Who could we get to open them for us?" I sat there feeling a sense of certitude begin to envelope me. Then I leaned forward and said, "Well, what about me?

Her apprehensions about my becoming Mr. Multimixer had been laid to rest at this point, and I don't think she ever got over the shock of discovering that we were nearly $100,000 in debt. She couldn't seem to handle it. For me, this was the first phase of grinding it out—building my personal monument to capitalism. I paid tribute, in the feudal sense, for many years before I was able to rise with McDonald's on the foundation I had laid.

If you have difficulty reaching your goal, keep the goal, but change your strategy.

the imagination to see, the strength to achieve, and an absolutely incorruptible moral integrity'.

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

Your destiny is now your own to forge as best as you may.

Desire creates the power.

Vouloir c'est pouvoir

all pros have "drive. Ambition. And the cold, rational ability to compartmentalize tragedies...and carry on.

The discovery that some actions are not as freely chosen as we may have thought does not take us to the conclusion that no action is freely chosen. Degrees of freedom imply freedom.

We all have a shovel in life. Some of us use it to build a pyramid with a great view, and some dig a hole to nowhere.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone."—Reba McEntire