Quotes About Determination

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

Life's gonna give me another set. I know it will.

Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?