Quotes About Determination

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.

Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.

If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.

There is no way to completely fail unless you completely quit.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

If you don't take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you're trying to accomplish, then you're forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.