Quotes About Determination

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.

That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

Life is pulled by goals and pushed by drive. Make sure you have both!

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire!

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.

I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.

I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win."

There are three choices in life and sport - either you do it, you don't do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?