Quotes About Determination

Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it.

Somebodies are not determined by whether they won or lost. Somebodies are people who go for it with all they have.

Piensa qué te gustaría decir a ti, llegado el momento, y escoge tu mentalidad.

If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it.

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset— creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.

Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it. He used it to become a better player and, he believes, a better person.

You have a choice. Mindsets are just beliefs. They're powerful beliefs, but they're just something in your mind, and you can change your mind. As you read, think about where you'd like to go and which mindset will take you there.

Some let everything slide. Others, though feeling wretched, hang on. They drag themselves to class, keep up with their work, and take care of themselves—so that when they feel better, their lives are intact.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained" and "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" or "Rome wasn't built in a day.

In the growth mindset, it's almost inconceivable to want something badly, to think you have a chance to achieve it, and then do nothing about it.

Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it. He used it to become a better player and, he believes, a

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" or "Rome wasn't built in a day.

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?

Somebodies are people who go for it with all they have.

as Billie Jean King tells us, the mark of a champion is the ability to win when things are not quite right—when you're not playing well and your emotions are not the right ones.

It might be easier to mobilize for action if I felt better, but it doesn't matter. The plan is the plan.

Salerno-Sonnenberg was terrified of losing DeLay. She finally decided that trying and failing -- an honest failure -- was better than the course she had been on.

Estas creencias pueden ser conscientes o inconscientes, pero influyen en lo que deseamos y determinan en gran parte si lo conseguimos o no.

Philip: Gee, I'm so clumsy. Father: That's not what we say when nails spill. Philip: What do we you say? Father: You say, the nails spilled - I'll pick them up!

Y yo no me voy a rendir; no voy a dejar que te rindas. Si te quedas sentado apoyándote contra la pared todo el día, acabarás por apoyarte en algo o en alguien toda tu vida. Y la genialidad que hay en ti se irá a la basura.

Cuanto peor se sentían, tanto más motivadas se volvían y tanto más afrontaban los problemas que tenían frente a sí.

It's a lot more difficult for me than I thought it would be, but it's what I want to do, so that only makes me more determined. When they tell me I can't, it really gets me going.' Challenge and interest went hand in hand.

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

The investigators asked them how certain they were that their horses would win. The bettors who had placed their bets were far more certain about their choice than the folks waiting in line.19 Yet nothing had changed except the finality of placing the bet. People become more certain they are right about something they just did if they can't undo it.