Quotes About Determination

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

Will is intention favored by emotions.

You can't make the right decision, but you can always make the dicision right.

Rule number one. The good guys always win.Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.

Kishan shook his head. 'I'm not going to let you hurt

Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Li há pouco dois velhos versos de Yeats que me pareceram verdadeiros, na medida relativa em que qualquer afirmação o pode ser: "Falta aos melhores toda a convicção, enquanto os piores estão cheios de uma intensidade apaixonada.