Quotes About Determination

But she was such a fighter. She refused to mope and lose her dignity. And she did this by returning to what she knew best. By getting better at it.

That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 years old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.

My top priority in life is my workout. Regardless of what happens, I hit that gym. Even when I was in the hospital twice with serious knee operations: Right after I came out of anesthesia, there was a chin bar over my head and dumbbells. I worked out immediately.

Anything in life is possible if you make it happen.

I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer -- that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.

When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, "Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound -- this is what I had to go through.

Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don't know anything. They have to be taught.

You be surprised what a person got in them to do when the time come.

The women's way was more effective. They might be ignored, abused, or dominated, but in the end the women were more practical, keeping their eye on whatever prize was within their grasp.

Burn like a bonfire in whatever you do

I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

OVERALL, THE MORE STRESSFUL MY LIFE WAS BECOMING, THE MORE DETERMINED I was to get it together, stop acting like a passenger, and climb back behind the wheel where I belonged

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

Giving up was never an option

Son,you never quit