Quotes About Determination

Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but paddling like the dickens underneath.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

Never give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping

I do what I want. I'm punk rock.

Michael Cole

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

Life will find a way.

With a rage he mistook for certainty...

Either we die here in the snow or we die fighting. I prefer the hard way.

Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

I am hurt, but I am not slain; I'll lay me down and bleed a-while, And then I'll rise and fight again!

A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Everyday is a day in which to excel

Something rises in me so hard I think it will lift me off the ground and ram me into the side of the house.

The key to becoming an entrepreneur is to be willing to start your business all over again.

There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.

Hustling, the action, the performance, is embraced because it often provides the only relief from economic misery. The hustler is determined not to suffer silently and turns distress to opportunity.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."2