Quotes About Determination

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.

He conquers who endures.

I bend, but I do not break.

In the clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or cried aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed.

We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

If I don't get off the mat, I'll lose the fight.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

When you're a professional, you come back no matter what happened the day before.

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

People with good intentions never give up!

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way, this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me, I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.