Quotes About Determination

Attitude is altitude.

When I was younger, I was trying to create from attitude more than anything else.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way – challenges, roadblocks – don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.

I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

"I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you."

There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Decisions that lead to no action, like a decision to start a new diet tomorrow, are no decisions at all. That's why is so easy to make New Year's resolutions.

As long as we don't give up, we don't fail. We just continue to learn

Constructive or destructive, the choice is ours

Not believing we have the power is not the same as not having the power

Wanting to be is not the same as choosing to be

But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.

Isn't that what usually happens? You know who did it, but you have to work your butts off to the knowledge into proof.

Break the fast, and you will be stronger to confront the enemy.

Having mastered the long sword at an early age—for some a lifelong struggle!—Musashi would go on to master the use of two swords simultaneously, as well as the other popular weapons of his day: the manriki chain, the shuriken throwing star, archery, spear, and bo-staff. Still not satisfied, before the end of his life, Musashi also became a respected calligrapher, painter, sculptor, writer, and master of the cha-do tea ceremony.

I find the business world hard.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.