Quotes About Determination

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

Success is in the trying, not the triumph.

It's not important where you finish. All that matters is what you give.

Whatever he did, he did it, he says, isshou-kenmei, a word that translates loosely as "with all your heart," but a more literal translation would be "hanging your whole life on it.

If life gets tough, what do you have that you can always count on? A Your fingers. 'But we have to write this book,' says Terry.

Assume any career moves you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

I was beginning to see how Burrell was so successful with everything he did. Like many high achievers, Burrell enjoyed challenges so much that he actually sought them out or consciously created them. He seemed to aggressively set up challenging situations throughout his life. Why intentionally "make a mess?" So you can get really good at "cleaning up!

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

Narnok rolled his shoulders and tilted his head left, then right, with terrifying cracks of released tension. The two men at his feet were groaning at different pitches, and Narnok stepped over them, testing the weight of the bar and muttering, "Not as good as the axe, but it'll do." He looked up. And grinned. "What's it to be, then? Two at a time or all six at once?

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea.

One gets to the place one wants to be the same way one got to the place one didn't want to be—by putting one foot in front of the other and moving in a specific direction.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage assumes fear. If we had waited for our fear to subside before we took that first plunge off of the high-dive, we would all still be standing there waiting. We just jumped anyway. Courage is the willingness to strap on your fear and move ahead.

VISIONEERING = INSPIRATION + CONVICTION + ACTION + DETERMINATION + COMPLETION

We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Podían haberlo olvidado, solo que él no permitió que lo olvidaran.