Quotes About Determination

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.

I've been failing for like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Men do not fail, they stop trying.

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is, "Don't grumble. Plug on!"

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.

If something doesn't come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten, and goes on fighting.

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind, and isn't through fighting.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never.... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

It's not worthy of human beings to give up.

Never admit defeat!