Quotes About Determination

Triple T, K A.... time to totally kick ass.

Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will run to the tenth mile. At the tenth I will say, Only three more to the halfway." At the halfway mark, 13.1 miles, I will know fifteen is in reach. At fifteen miles I will say, You've run twenty before, keep going." At twenty I will say, Run home.

Our motto must be, "Non-Resistant Persistence.

Marnie Swedberg

I want to choose faith every single time!

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

You get stronger by strengthing your mind, not your body.

Sé que si me rindo, el miedo puede destruirme.

I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did.

It was his idea to go horseback riding that day. It was his idea I could do anything if I just made up my mind to. I fell off the horse because I didn't know how to hold on. Cecil left for pretty much the same reason.

Mama:...you can keep trying. You can get brave and try some more. You don't have to give up. Jessie: I'm NOT giving up. This IS the other thing I'm trying. And I'm sure there are some other things that might work, but MIGHT work isn't good enough any more. I need something that WILL work. THIS will work. That's why I picked it.

If young George felt closer to his grandfather than to his own father, it was probably because George Wallace, Sr., was almost totally absorbed in a ceaseless, savage, losing cat-fight with life.

Successful people never drink from a glass that's half empty.

the willpower we assume when we set a goal rarely measures up to the willpower we display in achieving that goal.

We treat effort as a second-class citizen. It's the condolence message we send ourselves when we fail. We say, "I gave it my best shot," or "I get an A for effort." But after a few days, quantifying effort rather than outcome reveals patterns that we'd otherwise miss.

There is immeasurable satisfaction—even pleasure—in taking a big risk and fighting a battle you believe in. It's your life, your call. No one else can make it for you. AIWATT

Whether you're leading other people or leading the follower in you, the obstacles to achieving your goals are the same.

The three secrets of getting published: 1. Never give up! 2. Never give up! 3. Never give up! It doesn't matter how many rejection letters you get. Remember, you only need one acceptance letter.

La cuestion esta en decidirse en algo, alguna vez. The gist is in deciding on something, at some time.

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

Today is the first day of the rest of my push-up.

There's an old saying that in order to be successful I have to first believe I am capable of it – before it even shows up. That without that inner belief I'll make small decisions without even knowing it that can make it harder to become successful. There's that hindsight thing again and from my perch, two and a half years later – I can see a lot of those little places.