Quotes About Determination

Burke is a great man by nature, and is expected soon to attain civil greatness. I am grown greater too, for I have maintained the newspapers these many weeks; and what is greater still, I have risen every morning since New-year's day, at about eight; when I was up, I have indeed done but little; yet it is no slight advancement to obtain for so many hours more, the consciousness of being.

We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.

Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges," said Bourque. "Along

It is very important to grasp that Level 5 leadership is not just about humility and modesty. It is equally about ferocious resolve, an almost stoic determination to do whatever needs to be done to make the company great. Indeed, we debated for a long time on the

As people decide among themselves to turn the fact of potential into the fact of results, the goal almost sets itself.

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results.

those who strive to turn good into great find the process no more painful or exhausting than those who settle for just letting things wallow along in mind-numbing mediocrity.

It's not only the audacity of the goal but also the level of commitment to the goal that counts.

If you spend your life keeping your options open, that's exactly what you'll do . . . spend your life keeping your options open.

The best BHAGs make you think big. They force you to engage in both long-term building and short-term intensity. The only way to achieve a BHAG is with a relentless sense of urgency, day after day, week after week, month after month, for years. What do you need to do today, with monomaniacal focus, and tomorrow and the next day and the day after that to defy the probabilities and ultimately achieve your BHAG?

It is very important to grasp that Level 5 leadership is not just about humility and modesty. It is equally about ferocious resolve, an almost stoic determination to do whatever needs to be done to make the company great.

Courage, it's said, is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in its presence.

Look, this is going to be a very hard challenge. I want you to think about how demanding this is going to be. If you don't think you're going to like it, that's fine. Nobody's going to hate you.

Smith never wavered. Twenty-five years later, Kimberly-Clark owned Scott Paper outright and beat Procter & Gamble in six of eight product categories.12 In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, "I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job."13

Discipline is the greatest thing in the world. Where there is no discipline, there is no character. And without character, there is no progress. . . .

Setting priorities requires making tough choices as to what is really important. One reason so many people have such a difficult time getting focused is that they also have a difficult time making decisions: they balk at choosing which items will be left off their priority list.

You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of

Paradox: "We're not going to hit breakthrough by Christmas, but if we keep pushing in the right direction, we will eventually hit breakthrough.

an able man has many burdens. As I'm abler than most I have to sweat more than most.

But if I am to go, I am to go, and there's the end of it. Karma. She turned her mind off the inevitable to the immediate problem

It's amputate or die. Simple. And when it comes down to it, you can't die. Not yet. Once you're born, you are obligated to survive. At all costs.

We in the KGB are like Japanese in that we too agree the only sin is failure.

I've set myself against the sea all my life and I've always won. I always will.

Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.