Quotes About Determination

Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

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

I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.

Quit yourselves like men.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

As soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.

He was dying all his life.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.