Quotes About Determination

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

It's true that some mistakes can never be amended no matter what you do, but that doesn't mean it's all right to give up before you even try.

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision." – Muhammad Ali

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

But enough research has been done to indicate that those individuals with determination to overcome an illness tend to have a greater tolerance to severe pain than those who are morbidly apprehensive.

that a highly developed purpose and the will to live are among the prime raw materials of human existence. I became convinced that these materials may well represent the most potent force within human reach.

If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to lift a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.

There are bad journeys, to a bitter place I can't go to – yet, I lean towards it, tugging to get there, and thank God I'm clogged with the world. It grips me, I hold it.

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God has given us, to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalog of human crime. You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word. Victory, victory at all costs; victory in spite of all terror; victory however long and hard the road may be.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Now everything was going to be impossible, but better.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how".