Quotes About Determination

You have to erect a fence and say, "Okay, scale this."

If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.

Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

To some people, the impossible is impossible.

A lot of people don't think I can play. It doesn't really bother me, truthfully. If anything, it just motivates me. It makes me work harder, makes me kind of have a chip on my shoulder.

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.

The only failure is not to try.