Quotes About Determination

If I'm connected to an idea, it just doesn't let me go. All I have to do is catch up to the image in my head by doing the practical steps to get there.

I grew up a loser, and I always felt like one, but I turned out pretty okay. I may be living proof that you can spend your whole life feeling like you're falling down a set of steps and still maybe land on your feet at the bottom.

It always sounds so cheesy when I say it, but whatever it is you want to do, just go for it. I don't care what it is: find a reputable school, or if you need to go to college or get the right training, just go do it and take little steps.

Every time he steps on the floor, LeBron has to establish that he's the best. Every year is an opportunity for him to raise his level to the best of the best.

I think that's one of the most important thing for a player to have - to have goals for yourself, that you want to make steps, that you want to improve yourself, that you want to go the highest level.

I've got to take measured steps and avoid the pitfalls. Life in general has pitfalls, but being a boxer there's even more.

All I've got to say is I'm in the top 15, I'm not taking any backwards steps.

I am not in a hurry... I take slow steps but never go backwards.

If you have the mentality that Jon Jones has when he steps into the cage, no one will beat you on the mat.

Everything happens for a reason. Like when Im asked if I regret not taking the next steps as a rugby player. Well, If I had I likely wouldn't have done what I have in darts.

I'd rather grind slow because when it land in my lap and when I get it, it's going to last longer than just shooting straight to the top and then the plane crashing because I done shot up too fast. I'd rather grind, figure the steps out and stay up there.

I don't really pay attention to the long-term, I take short steps - that is what I have done through my whole career, from non-league to the Premier League.

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

One of the things that I've always had fun with is the stereotype 'white man can't jump.' It's followed me along my whole career and it's something that obviously I've tried to disprove many times.

Prudent, considerate, careful, determined, honest, and inflexible:

Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.