Quotes About Determination

I've never been connected with a losing team and I hope to instill a winning spirit in the Packers in a lot less than five years.

You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

In this world, a man must be either anvil or hammer.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained in sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.

Belle turned around. She looked down at her hands, hardened with work. They might have been city hands once, but they weren't anymore, and they never would be again, no matter how much cream she slathered on them. She'd made a place for herself.

I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

If you get to it, And you cannot do it, There you jolly-well are, Aren't you?

They vow to amend their lives, and yet they don't; Because if drown'd, they can't—if spared, they won't.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering "I will ne'er consent"—consented.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.