Quotes About Determination

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attidute.

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.