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Quotes About Determination

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.
~ Marion Jones
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.
~ Thomas Merton
No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
~ Unknown
Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
~ Sara Blakely
There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.
~ John Popper
Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.
~ Pete Sampras
There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?
~ Michael Jordan
The only failure is not trying.
~ Robin Sharma
Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.
~ Tony Robbins
As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.
~ Alexa Von Tobel
Nothing fails like failure
~ Margaret Drabble
Failure builds muscle, determination, and dreams.
~ Michael Jordan
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.
~ David Hilbert
It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?
~ J. K. Rowling
I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.
~ Arian Foster
There's no such thing as failure if you just try.
~ Kendall Schmidt
Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.
~ Craig Benzine
Failure is... the highway to success.
~ Og Mandino
To think of failure is to fail.
~ Arthur Saxon
Failure leaves open a door for us to try, and try again.
~ Robert M. Hensel
With failure, you just try again.
~ Judd Nelson
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
~ Paul Valery
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
~ Major Taylor
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
~ Og Mandino