Quotes About Determination

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!

The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

Courage is essential to leadership.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.