Quotes About Determination

Aquel pueblo avanzaba con una decisión que arrastraba consigo todas las simpatías del mundo civilizado. La joven Israel se alzaba como un faro para la humanidad, demostrando cuánto se podía conseguir con fuerza de voluntad y amor.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Hoping never done nothing. It wanting that do it. You got to want to win so bad you can taste it. If you want to win bad enough you win.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set—the set of people who don't give up.

Michael Jordan once said, "I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

in 1904 he applied for a promotion from patent clerk third class to patent clerk second class and was turned down.

The reason is, when there is a hard problem, one has to work a long time and has to be persistent. In order to be persistent, you have got to be convinced that it's worthwhile working so hard, that you're going to get somewhere.

recent years psychologists have found that the ability to persist in the face of obstacles is at least as important a factor in success as talent.

What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

Or as the IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." I

As we'll see, the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can therefore have a hard time accepting the influence of unrelated or random factors.

to keep control of some important aspects of one's life despite an environment that seemed overwhelming.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

Tell me if anything was ever done... Tell me... Tell me.

Obstacles cannot crush me...he who is fixed to a star does not change his mind

People of accomplishments rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.

Those who accomplish don't sit around, hoping things will happen to them...

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.