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Quotes About Determination

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
~ Lance Armstrong
Maybe my pain was my motivation.
~ LeBron James
Keep your hand on the helm.
~ Matt Goldman
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.
~ Richard Branson
If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
~ Roberto Clemente
Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
~ Stephen Leacock
You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.
~ Van Morrison
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aim higher in case you fall short.
~ Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)
~ Erin Hunter, Into the Wild
Work. Don't Think. Relax.
~ Ray Bradbury
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
~ H. L. Mencken
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
~ Lucy Stone
If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
~ Martha Beck
Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.
~ Michael Jordan
I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
~ Nelson Mandela
Trying will do anything in this world.
~ Theocritus
There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
~ Tony Robbins
There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
~ Vince Lombardi
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
~ Arthur Helps