Quotes About Determination

Over the course of his career, Abraham Lincoln had a staggering record of lost elections and public-office failures. For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois, failure was not only an option, it was practically his specialty. If it hadn't been, he would never have made it to the White House, and who knows what the United States would look like today. Or if there would even be such a thing as the United States. And

There is one quality which one must possess to win," writes Napoleon Hill in his all-time classic Think and Grow Rich, "and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

We are all either building our own dreams or building somebody else's. To put a sharper point on it, we're either building our own dreams - or building our nightmares.

Serving as your own boss, and doing so successfully, consistently, day in and day out, takes an uncommon degree of slight edge integrity, and frankly many business owners just don't have it.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose,

All you have to do is keep doing the things that got you this far. Which is exactly what 99.9 percent of people don't do.

the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

What do most people do? When there's a tree in the way they grab that axe, dull or not, and start whaling away at it. And if they

Impossible just takes a little longer.

You had to clearly choose. Shaq was jealous of Kobe. Kobe wasn't jealous of Shaq. Kobe just wanted to kick everybody's ass.

Courage is action, not talk.

actually seemed more like his butt said it because at the moment, he was on his hands and knees, trying to fit into an elevated, three-and-a-half foot crawlspace that appeared to not have been entered in close

And being stubborn. "Why don't you just let me get up there?" I said, trying to

Brute force never changes people. People need to change themselves.

Ying threw the tiger hook swords far across the compound and leaped down from the high roof in a perfectly executed double flip. "Everyone, follow me!" Ying shouted. "Now!" Tonglong waited for Ying and the others to travel some distance before he tucked his thick braid into his sash and leaped down in a perfect triple flip.

I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life.

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You tended to quit doing things after the bad times, and not the good times.

The people who seem the most like geniuses are not geniuses. They're just more comfortable with failing. They try more and they try harder than other people, and so they stumble onto more songs. It's pretty simple. People who don't pick up a pencil never write a poem. People who don't pick up a guitar and try every day don't write a whole lot of great songs. If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

It can be very daunting and upsetting when people realize that others are more talented than they are. But you have to work through that. You can't quit because there's a Beyoncé in the world.

You're on your own, like you've always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can't go forward anymore.

And I am trying my best, too. Even if we don't always know what that means or how it will play out. You can get caught up in something that's beyond you, and never understand why.

People with packs are people with purpose.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.