Quotes About Determination

Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Managing a goal is the best way to guarantee reaching it.

If I didn't have enormous dreams, I wouldn't have come this far!

Doesn't make any difference how hard the thing is or how much you want to do something else. Do the thing you first started and do it as well as you possibly can.

There are always periodic opportunities to give up, while every single moment is an opportunity to persevere.

If someone tells you that you can't do it, then prove to yourself that you can. You don't need somebody else's word for it, you just need yours.

Do not worry, my sweet one. You have it within you to get yourself where you need to be.

You're allowed to be sad and angry. You're not allowed to give up.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

vision is the power that sustains. Whatever we keep in front of our eyes is what will determine our outcome!

front of them. This illustrates the principle that vision is the power that sustains. Whatever we keep in front of our eyes is what will determine our outcome!

Gates loved competing- and winning. Just as importantly, he hated losing. He thrived on competition, as long as he was playing or doing something he was good at, and relished opportunities to prove himself, physically and mentally.

On one 50-mile summer hike, Gates demonstrated the persistence and tenacity that was to be his trademark later in life.

As Gates had told the pastor that day in his house. "I can do anything I put my mind to".

Everything Bill did, he did to the max, said Edmark. What he did always went well, well beyond everyone else. Gifted children - those with IQs near or above the genius level- sometimes grow up to be socially inept, due to limited childhood interactions and experiences. Bill and Mary Gates were determined to see that that didn't happen to their son.

Don't worry; work!

Suck e'm long, suck e'm hard

Self-discipline is never simple.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Weve gotta roll with the punches Learn to play all of our hunches. Makin the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition And learn to trust your intuition. Plowin straight ahead come what may.

I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly what type of player I wanted to become.

I have no individual goals. We play for one reason and that's to win the title. Practice is more important than the games, and I will practice when I'm hurt, when 95 percent of the players in this league would sit out. I expect all of you to do the same thing. You will follow my lead." – Michael Jordan

Sean) "Sometimes the system fails. And sometimes you have to break the rules to get what you want.