Quotes About Determination

New Goals As a major-league player, Hershiser continued to work hard at improving his game, and after five years in the majors, he set a new goal for himself: He wanted to be the youngest, smartest major-league pitcher ever.4 His new goal was realized in 1988. After recovering from knee surgery

others must exercise twice as much just to keep pace. Some people are predisposed

Excuses should be laughed at, not dignified. Excuses and responsibility cannot coexist. It's

What I did, I did on my own. Don't mourn me. Be joyful.

But she would not break her discipline to comfort herself in a shallow way. Would no more break discipline with her Self than she would her covenant with God.

I pledge no fudge of compromise', said Arthur Scargill, 'and no carrots of redundancy'. That would make a nice epitaph for him. 'He pledged no fudge'.

Howay yabastaaz I'll t-t-take the f-f-fuckin lorrayaz! Am fuckin al reet me man. Why aye!

Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go.

Unless you are ambitious, you do not make progress.

You never know how much you can do, until you try to do more than you can.

DO more, KNOW more, THINK more, HAVE more and WANT more than your opponent.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

The only true failure is the failure of not trying.

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

You'll have to fish or cut bait. That's all there is to it. Let's pretend

Tenacious prayer is a lifestyle that produces results.

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

Running twenty-six miles is no fun. I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him.

But would the man who hunted him still be here? Leaphorn considered this. The man would have known he had flushed his bird. He needed to be a fairly competent tracker to find George's kill site. But once George was running, covering his tracks, he would have to be much better than that. He would have to be as good as Joe Leaphorn — and perhaps better than Leaphorn. As far as Leaphorn knew, there were no better trackers than himself. Certainly no Zuni, or white man.

A Yellow Raft on Blue Water. He'd left it opened to page 158. A hard place to stop.

Sucking at something every once in a while is how you achieve greatness in the long run.

Your limitations may be challenges, but they shouldn't be excuses.

Erasers are your friends on the road to success.

Resilience isn't just key to happiness; it's key to success.