Quotes About Determination

When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

Every college player thinks they're on their way. But, delusions aside, I might have toiled in the minor leagues for a bit.

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

Even in the minor leagues, I just said I'll get my little bit of time in here and then get out of here. I was going to try, though. I wasn't going to just give up. I was always going to try. I'm here. I figured I might as well try.

I know that I'm in the minority to be able to keep working all these years. But I want more!

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.

You've got to play hard every minute you're on the court.

I can't do anything in a minute.

I got to fight every second, every minute and every round.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

'La Mancha' was a gift from me to me. I never thought for a minute it was going to be a hit.

The minute they gave me number one, I went to the studio. I was ready to give y'all something else. I was going 120 miles an hour.

If a person is disappointed and weary of life, it means a strong will is lacking. And if there is no strong will, how is it possible to live the life of someone who needs to practice perseverance and perhaps endure some hardship?

If we want to be happy and joyful, then we must be determined to let go of attachment. Free from attachment, we are no longer caught in the circle of samsara—not burdened by anxiety nor restlessly searching for what is unwholesome. The absence of attachment leads to true peace and joy.

among men and not among angels; among men as intelligent, as determined and as independent as myself, who, not agreeing with me, do not choose to yield up their opinions to mine. Mutual concessions is our only resort, or mutual hostilities."*

We study better in hostile surroundings than in hospitable ones, a student is always well advised to choose a hostile place of study rather than a hospitable one, for the hospitable place will rob him of the better part of his concentration for his studies, the hostile place on the other hand will allow him total concentration, since he must concentrate on his studies to avoid despairing

Es gibt ja nur Gescheitertes. In dem wir wenigstens den Willen zum Scheitern haben, kommen wir vorwärts und wir müssen in jeder Sache und in allem und in jedem immer wieder wenigstens den Willen zum Scheitern haben, wenn wir noch schon sehr früh zugrunde gehen wollen, was tatsächlich nicht die Absicht sein kann, mit welcher wir da sind.

he kept saying to himself, I will not sell the Francis Bacon, never the Francis Bacon, absolutely not, I will not sell the Francis Bacon, no I won't, not the Francis Bacon.

In the knowledge that nothing at all is certain and that nothing at all is perfect, we should, even with the greatest doubts, begin and continue whatever we have determined to do. If we give up each time even before we have started, we eventually find ourselves in desperation, and finally and ultimately we no longer get out of that desperation and are lost.

After all, there is nothing but failure. If at least we have the will to fail we make progress, and in everything, in each and everything, we must at least have the will to fail unless we wish to perish at a very early stage, which of course cannot be the intention behind our existence.

Ich erzähle dir das deshalb, damit du heute schon weißt, daß alles seinen Preis hat. Wenn du eines Tages endlich weißt, was du willst, dann wirst du auch konsequent sein müssen. Und du wirst eben nicht nur hart arbeiten müssen - das sowieso -, sondern du wirst auch deine Katzen ersäufen müssen. Und ich kenne keinen, der etwas gilt, der darum herumgekommen ist. Jeder von denen hat mal seine sechs Katzen ersäuft.

It seemed that we were condemned to be who we were, which was not a particularly good prospect.

If to get to the finish line the hero must walk over a sea of bodies, then so be it. He can die at said line, but he's got to get there.

Stop apologizing! It doesn't help, and it sells the speaker short.