Quotes About Determination

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.

Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them, and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination; the way you play it is free will.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I have been doing.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself, hey, I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute, then it would be a disaster, but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered.