Quotes About Determination

Consider failure as just a comma in the middle of a sentence that tells the story of your life.

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay on Compensation

If you've ever been told, "You'll get it if you just want it bad enough," I'm here to let you off the hook: it simply isn't true.

it is just as easy to step back into the habit of succeeding as it is to slip into the habit of failing.

You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be, or settling for what you are.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." —Chinese proverb I

No matter what you have done in your life up until today, no matter where you are and how far down you may have slid on the failure curve, you can start fresh, building a positive pattern of success, at any time. Including right now. But you need to have faith in the process, because you won't see it happening at first.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." —

Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

The difference that will make all the difference between success and failure, between achieving the quality of life you want and settling for less than you desire and deserve, lies one hundred percent in which of those little, "insignificant" actions you choose to do. This is why we are all capable of doing what it takes to be successful. We are all capable of being winners ... and yes, that includes you.

by adding those little grams of success, one at a time (and by not adding more weight to the failure side), you will eventually and inevitably begin to shift the scales in your favor.

Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. GREATNESS IS ALWAYS IN THE MOMENT OF THE DECISION. But you have to start.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started. People

If you will commit to showing up consistently, every day, no matter what, then you have already won well more than half the battle.

The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them.

They do the thing, and gain the power.

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

here's how real success is built: by the time you get the feedback, the real work's already done.

I have not failed. I've simply discovered ten thousand ways that don't work.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power.

You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.