Quotes About Determination

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him.

You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.

that your are the prime driver of your life. The world is malleable enough to be shaped by you. To lead a better life you just have to work harder, or use more willpower, or make better decisions.

Learn to swim, and then swim. -John Lennon when asked, "What's the meaning of life?

I don't like begging money from producers.

Watch me work! Watch me work! Watch me work!

I don't care how impossible it seems.

To the extent I am good at anything other than falling down, it is getting back up, at overcoming low expectations—many of them my own—to do things I didn't think I was capable of.

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing.

Addicts know the voices in their heads can't be trusted, and that is precisely why there are so many of us out there in the ultra marathon community, moving forward one step at a time. And that's what Nico and I did—one step followed by another until we got to Hope Pass.

Its not how you start your life its how you finish it

Once more we shall raise our heads high, for is it not better to live standing tall, than to die on your knees?

at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,Be always sure you're right—then go ahead.

You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.

be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

If We Quit Trying, It All Goes in the Sh-tter.

In my experience the most crucial predictor of recovery is a persistent willingness to exert some effort to help yourself. Given this attitude, you will succeed.