Quotes About Determination

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

Plan your work and work your plan.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

I love the mentality that when push comes to shove, simply work harder and the results will come.

When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got.

You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

I did the 23 hour nose-route to the top of El Capitan in 6 hours and 18 minutes! I can make this work.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.

If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.