Quotes About Determination

He once told me that they'd have to wake him for his execution because "the Mouse ain't gonna miss his rest.

Jackson couldn't fly straight down if you threw him off a cliff.

No fighter ever won his fight by covering up—by merely fending off the other fellow's blows. The winner hits and keeps on hitting even though he has to take some stiff blows in order to be able to keep on hitting. —ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, 1942

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

As he offered to advance, she exclaimed, Remain where thou art, proud Templar, or at thy choice advance!--one foot nearer, and I plunge myself from the precipice; my body shall be crushed out of the very form of humanity upon the stones of that courtyard ere it become the victim of thy brutality!

It has often been remarked of the Scottish character, that the stubbornness with which it is moulded shows most to advantage in adversity, when it seems akin to the native sycamore of their hills, which scorns to be biassed in its mode of growth even by the influence of the prevailing wind, but, shooting its branches with equal boldness in every direction, shows no weather-side to the storm, and may be broken, but can never be bended.

What!" said Bois-Guilbert, "so soon?" "Ay," replied the preceptor, "trial moves rapidly on when the judge has determined the sentence beforehand.

Me, on whom, in case of failure — which Heaven forefend! —

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity….and to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible, because it seems so.

I will not slip my dog before the game's a-foot.—But

Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capabilities.

If you're afraid of something, then reach deep inside and face it head-on.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

I would rather be certain of a good result than hopeful of a great one.

He tried to close a hand around the precious coffee but had to jerk his fingers away, sharply enough that his wrist popped painfully. Tallow wondered if the other end of the coffee machine was slurping water out of a lake in Hell.

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.

a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone.

Prayer does not alter that which God has determined; it never changes anything. It merely achieves what He has already foreordained.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter what you know to be your destiny.

If you follow the herd, you'll end up stepping in shit.