Quotes About Determination

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

I love the challenge.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

No man is demolished but by himself.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, "Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

When I saw something that needed doing, I did it.