Quotes About Determination

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.

You reached out of nowhere and took her. I will reach into nothing and find you. You're here. I know you're here. I can feel you. I can smell you. We're coming for you. One by one, Sydowski stared at the men

insistent opening bark of the UPI's Helen Thomas:

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

When the stakes are the biggest is when the challenges to focus can be the most difficult and the most costly.

Success Is A Choice

Whatever is happening in life, focus is the key to performance. Without it, you flounder.

Muhammad Ali said, "Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

performance is your greatest ally in dealing with adversity, and focus is your greatest weapon in achieving that performance.

Succeeding in difficult times means perseverance, and that trait is not prevalent in these times. We are the now generation.

you can develop all of the wonderful traits you need to succeed—focus, humility, toughness, and passion—but if you quit when things become difficult or when you become discouraged, they all are worthless.

I am a slow walker," Lincoln said. "But I never walk backwards.

You cannot become distracted by success, and losing focus happens just as much through prosperity as it does adversity.

humility was the key to staying focused and to keeping a winning mind-set, as well as the key to accepting setbacks and turning them to positives.

Failure is not final, and I always have said it is fertilizer for future success.

There's too much at stake for you to let some little thing distract you and pull you down into defeat.

It's our responsibility to determine to use our sound minds, hold fast to the Scriptures, and refuse to budge from God's truth.

Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

Screw it. I'll be in my Mansion soon.

There are a lot of things that happen to us that cannot be explained. I don't have the answer for everything, but I do know this: if you think you can do something, then you can do it. If you think you can't do something, then most likely you can't.