Quotes About Determination

The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

There are many lessons people can learn about the left. One of the key lessons is they never give anything up. Once they begin a quest, they don't stop until they've got it. The other thing that you need to learn is, they're never happy even after they succeed. They are never happy because there can never be enough to satisfy them.

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.

Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.

What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.

I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.

So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.

I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

The road is still very long. We want to concentrate for now on manufacturing in the U.S. If I don't succeed, my son will continue with it. If he doesn't make it, my grandson will.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

It don't stop 'til the casket drop.

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it's planted in stone

You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left." Tupac Shakur

For every dark night there is a brighter day

You can't quit poverty.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

If you're at a dead end, take a deep breath, stamp your foot, and shout "Begin!" You never know where it will take you.

There's nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks.

There in a nutshell is the essence of creativity: There are a number of possibilities, but only one solution looks inevitable.