Quotes About Determination

The biggest trees look intimidating until you swing your axe.

The distance you walk on water depends on how great your faith is.

The harder you fall, the stronger you rise.

The higher the thoughts the greater the deeds.

The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity.

Think like the great, speak like the great, act like the great, and you will become like the great.

To climb great mountains you need feet of faith.

Walking on water is safer than sailing in a leaking boat.

Warriors achieve more than worriers.

You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim.

At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless.

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

Struggle until you can't struggle anymore. Just now you decided to live your life... Don't run away.

It takes courage and conviction to succeed in the spotlight.

It was like a great big déjà vu moment. Last time he had sprinted at the pack and tackled the man holding the Ring. And it had been a mistake. But as Dak sat there, studying the scene, he realized something: He would always race to help Sera when she appeared to be in danger. He didn't care how many times it was a mistake. There was no way he would ever be able to just sit back and let something possibly happen to her.

The same willingness to face reality that allows certain athletes to accept a negative turn of events also helps them bear what must be borne to address the bad situation.

That desperate tug-of-war between the desire to persevere and the overwhelming temptation to quit. And he loved it.

It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course," he wrote. "I had my problems winning. I felt several times like giving into the pain and letting Gary [sic] win but I just couldn't. I just kept driving myself harder and harder, longer and longer.

Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose.

Frankl focused his psychologist's eye on ultrarealists he encountered in these awful places, writing that "the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement," which proved that "any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

If you want to get a sense of what a very high level of perceived effort feels like in isolation from fatigue, find a steep hill and run up it as fast as you can. (You should probably warm up first.) That feeling of trying as hard as you can that hits you immediately, before fatigue sets in, is the feeling of a very high level of perceived effort.

If I was ever going to win Ironman, I was going to have to beat the man who rinsed his cottage cheese

My mother always said I was special." "Well, she got that right, I suppose. She just didn't know how." "She also mentioned 'especially stubborn' from time to time.

If you ever fall for a woman, make sure she's got balls.