Quotes About Determination

You can fail at what you don't love so you might as well take a chance on doing what you do love.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Determined people working together can do anything.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your face against it.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty-- no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.

and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty—no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.

It's not how you start that's important, but how you finish!

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

Project leaders need to focus on value in several ways: value determination (with product owners), value prioritization (backlog management), and value creation (iterative development).

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. —Daniel H. Burnham

Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.

Hard work isn't just a means to an end—it's an obsession.