Quotes About Determination

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark!

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

So long as I believe I have to do certain things, I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life.

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.