Quotes About Determination

The British obviously overlooked the fact that an American only has to be sold on the idea that his cause is just and he is capable of anything.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

I hope to see ya there, muscles!

Being able to flip up against a wall and start doing handstand pushups is cool.

Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking.

If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The importance of Marshall's pre–Pearl Harbor leadership is impossible to ignore. To cite one dynamic example, fully three-quarters (more than 45,000) of the Army's lieutenants and captains who fought in all theaters of World War II were graduates of the Officer Candidate Schools he fought so hard to establish before the United States entered the war, in the face of strong opposition from both Roosevelt and Stimson.

But determination can make the miraculous possible.

In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.

It's not when people notice you're there that they pay attention; it's when they notice you're still there.

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.

One sign that determination matters more than talent: there are lots of talented people who never achieve anything, but not that many determined people who don't.

With ambition, you tend to get one step below what you aim for. So unless you try to be the best, you won't even be good.

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

We keep looking for justice, but it's nothing but stormy nights and dark alleys out there.

Rock it man. I know you will

The spirit of those men of steel, / their gray-eyed wives and daughters

It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.

I was determined to think about nothing, which never works, because a blank mind is an invitation to truth.

She showed courage and that's the most difficult thing in the world for any human being to show

And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Normal, nice people don't become writers.

I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Please tell me who I am and what I'm doing.