Quotes About Determination

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Never Give Up!

Or would you just sit around smoking pot all day, rebelling against yourself?

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever will do.

I think everything is possible as long as long as you put your mind, work and time into it.

I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.

That's it. Thats Bob's game. His drill...is really quite simple- make a habit of doing things other's weren't willing to do.

I'm doing this for me. If I don't become as successful as you all think I would be or should be and you think it tarnishes my career, then that's your own opinion. I'm doing this because I want to come back and I enjoy being in the pool and I enjoy being in the sport of swimming.

If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers.

He would crawl until his body could support a crutch. If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The next morning he would crawl forward again. If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

If luck wouldn't find him, we would do his best to make his own.

Reaching Fort Brazeau seemed markedly anticlimactic. True, it was a milestone. Yet for Glass the fort did not mark a finish line to cross with elation, but rather a starting line to cross with resolve.

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Second, with determination and focus, it is possible to wait for the moment when the human puckers up to blow. At that instant, spit the pill the short distance into the human's mouth. See how well they like it.

There's plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But

The fact is, life's successes and failures are sporadic, and their causes are difficult to determine. Hard work and luck are behind most successes, though it is hard to say, for any given success, how much of each there has been.