Quotes About Determination

When people are in a focused state, the words "I can't," "I'll try," "I'll do it tomorrow," and "maybe" get forced out of their vocabularies.

that if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be—on winning.

Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right. It's called the road less traveled.

It's always good to be underestimated.

Nothing is easy. But who wants nothing?

No one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can't be done.

Demand the best from yourself and be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures.

As for those among you who do have the genes, who do have the instincts, and who could be highly successful, well, I still hope you won't follow my advice. Because that would just make it a much tougher world for me.

an entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

We have to set records, we have no choice.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after. Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases I still end up with what I want

If you can accept losing, you already lost.

You can't be scared, you do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens happens.

And so here she was, working with a friend she could never see, trying to rescue someone she'd never met from an enemy that a few days ago she would not believed had existed.

Though he had repeatedly asked her not to do this, she insisted on choosing a subject at the beginning of any investigation he worked on, and she was generally wrong, for she always opted for the most obvious choice.

If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He

their protests, and plunged ahead.

Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles so large that they could not be plowed over with sheer force of momentum.

is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

It had been a conscious decision to pull free. It had taken everything I had to do it, like an animal gnawing a limb off to escape a trap. And somehow I had done it;

And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.

I could do what I had to. I'd done it before: gone blank, pushed forward.