Quotes About Determination

Douglas MacArthur

Tupper, I think in The Victor. Alf was a working class, whippet-thin runner known as the Tough of the Track who won all his races despite having been up all night making briquettes to save a friend's business, missing his bus to the stadium, being knocked over mid-race by a poncy upper-class twit and losing one of his raggedy running shoes.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. —Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

When David went out to face Goliath, he was not looking for a dialogue partner.

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

You may not succeed in one day, but one day you will succeed!

But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going To have troubles with me!

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

You can not achieve anything if you just sit and complain.Try your best with everything you have.

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

No one can save the world unless those who are determined to destroy it are dead

Be phenomenal or be forgotten.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

It took more than science to make hope real.

The Filipino loves his country no less than the Spaniard does his, and although he is quieter, more peaceful and with more difficulty stirred up, once aroused he does not hesitate and for him the struggle means death to the finish. He has both the meekness and ferocity of the carabao. Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things.

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.