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Quotes About Determination

Most people in life, give up too early.
~ John Mellencamp
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
~ Lee Iacocca
If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.
~ Lisa Gardner
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
~ Mark Twain
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
~ Confucius
Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win
~ Erin Brockovich
All my life, I've dreamed in gold.
~ Misty May-Treanor
No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.
~ Nabeshima Naoshige
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.
~ Napoleon Hill
If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
~ Robert Collier
The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
~ Napoleon Hill
The greatest failure is the failure to try.
~ William Arthur Ward
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
~ Ruth Westheimer
I believe in myself, and I've always had people behind me who believed in me. With that, you can do anything.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.
~ Star Parker
How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.
~ Stephen King
Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
~ Sylvester Stallone
If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Your field of focus determines what you find in life.
~ T. Harv Eker
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.
~ Tony La Russa
The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.
~ Tony Robbins