Quotes About Determination

Every day, and every minute of every day, there is a battle going on inside of you between doing what is right, hard, and necessary (like the angel on one shoulder) or doing what is fun, easy, and of little or no value (like the devil on your other shoulder). Every minute of every day, you must fight and win this battle with the Expediency Factor and resist the pull of the Path of Least Resistance if you truly desire to become everything you are capable of becoming.

Self-discipline can also be defined as self-control. Your ability to control yourself and your actions, control what you say and do, and ensure that your behaviors are consistent with your long-term goals and objectives is the mark of the superior person.

No importa lo que todos te digan, prepárate para la posibilidad de que no lo hagan.

Take Action on Your Plan Immediately. Take the first step—and then the second step and the third step. Get going. Get busy. Move quickly. Don't delay. Remember: Procrastination is not only the thief of time; it is the thief of life.

You must resolve, from this moment forward, to become a goal-seeking organism, like a guided missile or a homing pigeon, moving unerringly toward the goals that are important to you.

It begins within you. In sales, your personality is more important than your product knowledge. It is more important than your sales skills. It is more important than the product or service that you are selling. In fact, your personality determines fully 80 percent of your sales success.

La capacidad para concentrarse resueltamente en la tarea más importante, hacerla bien y terminarla es la clave del gran éxito, del logro, el respeto, el estatus y la felicidad en la vida. Mientras

No espere; el tiempo nunca será el «más adecuado». Empiece donde está y trabaje con las herramientas que tenga a disposición y hallará mejores herramientas a medida que avance. Napoleon Hill

Whatever it is that can help you the most, set it as a goal, make a plan to achieve it, and go to work on your plan immediately. Remember the wonderful words of Goethe: "Only engage, and the mind grows heated. Begin it, and the work will be completed.

When you are absolutely clear about your goal, you do not even have to know how to achieve it. By simply deciding exactly what you want, you will begin to move unerringly toward your goal, and your goal will start to move unerringly toward you. At exactly the right time and in exactly the right place, you and the goal will meet.

accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses

The first law of success is concentration—to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. WILLIAM MATHEWS

The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success

There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!

Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete.

The fact is that successful people fail far more often than unsuccessful people. Successful people try more things, fall down, pick themselves up, and try again—over and over again—before they finally win.

You are a "choosing organism." You are constantly making choices, one way or the other. Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities. At each moment, you choose what is more important or of higher value to you over what is less important or of lesser value.

Once you have decided upon your goal, ask yourself, "Why am I not there already?" What is holding you back? Why haven't you achieved that goal up to now?

Between you and anything you want to accomplish you will always find problems or obstacles of some kind. This is why success is sometimes defined as the ability to solve problems.

DON'T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh

The two most important qualities for success in business are patience and foresight, and the man who lacks patience is not cut out for success in competitive enterprise.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough

The number one reason why some people get more work done faster is because they are absolutely clear about their goals and objectives and they don't deviate from them.

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