Quotes About Determination

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.

God helps them that helps themselves.

A guru might say that spiritual deepening involves a journey toward the unselfconscious living of life as it unfolds, rather than toward a willful determination to make it happen.

James Drummond Burns

I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things, as revenge. To show that I could.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crises, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.