Quotes About Determination

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

All things are possible to him who believes.

Let's win this one for the Gipper.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

The game isn't over until it's over.

Citius, altius, fortius. (Swifter, higher, stronger.)

This story will never go down.

Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.

The world belongs to the energetic.

The real difference between men is energy.