Quotes About Determination

If you are prepared," he told his players, "you will be confident, and will do the job.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries.

Benjamin Franklin said, "Energy and persistence conquer all things."79

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries."72

many people who failed did so because they gave up without realizing how close to success they were.

When your faith is strong, you've got an extra tank of rocket fuel for those times when the road is long and there are no refill stations in sight.

Everyone has the will to win, but it's only those with the will to prepare that do win.

But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. 2 Chronicles 15:7

during tough times, "Leaders stretch to the challenge, while followers shrink from the challenge.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

Maybe Marcus was wrong. Maybe a single person can save the world. I'll bet I could. I could save the whole world - for a night.

The thought does cross my mind that I could slip and end up cracking my head on the pavement just short of the pool, but if you're always going to worry about minor drawbacks, then you'll never accomplish anything.

What else am I going to do, let the girl sit there on a railing in the moonlight thinking she's damned to go dudeless for the rest of her life?

Absolutely. We all want something that sticks." I don't mention that wanting it is a whole different thing from actually believing you can get it.

Anything's worth working for if you want it enough.

I wasn't an object. I was Matthew Fucking Richter

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Richard Nixon had quoted the same speech the day before

Everyone will tell you your goal is impossible, pointless, stupid, wasteful. So you hang tough. You back yourslef and only yourself.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Timothy Egan

Two million Americans were living as nomads. They were not long-time drifters, most of them, according to reporters who had spent some time on the trains. They were family men, farmers and factory hands, merchants, some professionals among them, writers and bank clerks and storeowners—all broke, people who could not stand to see their kids in rags, hungry.

ground. In 1917, about forty-five

Better for a man to fail, he said, even "to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner