Quotes About Determination

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward you goal.

Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The attitude, "You can win if you want to badly enough," means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too "tough" to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Action is a highroad to self-esteem.

if you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you will never get it done

My Definite Chief Aim I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return, I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action

Self-will is the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I hold absolutely sacred—the law in himself, his own "will." What does self-willed mean? Does it not mean "having a will of one's own?" The human herd instinct demands adaptation and subordination—but for his highest honor man elects not the meek, the pusillanimous, the supine, but precisely the self-willed man, the heroes.

Having one's own will. — What does self-willed mean? Hell, isn't it knowing above all, that, indeed, one is the captain of one's soul, the master of one's life? Now what causes such realization and, consequently, brings about a change in one's behavior? TO BE REAL, TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONESELF.

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

We made a promise we swore we'd always rememberNo retreat, baby, no surrender.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.