Quotes About Determination

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay

persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.

you're much more persistent when you're confident in your abilities.

Obviously, horse-race bettors are not alone in their willingness to believe in the correctness of a difficult choice, once made.

I needed to determine whether those reasons were genuine or mere justifications for my decision to stop there. So I asked myself the crucial question, "Knowing what I know about the real price of this gasoline, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice again?" Concentrating on the first burst of impression I sensed, I received a clear and unqualified answer. I would have driven right past.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me." "Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.

It is one of the secrets of happiness that you know which battles you can win and which you can't.

They will commit to reversing the vicious cycle even if that means living less comfortably.

A hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

See, Matt, there's two kinds of people," he went on. "And the difference is in how they see themselves. One guy says to himself, 'I'm the boss of circumstances.' The other guy says, 'I'm the victim of circumstances.'...And you know what?...They're both right.

Does he make things happen, or does he make excuses?

Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.