Determination Quotes

You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.

Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

It is much easier to start something than to finish it.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Brothers in Islam! We now have the enemy in front of us and the deep sea behind us. We cannot return to our homes, because we have burnt our boats. We shall now either defeat the enemy and win or die a coward's death by drowning in the sea. Who will follow me?

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

It's been kind of tough, but tough people last.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

Better never begin; once begun, better finish.

Let none say, I will not drinke water.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

Patience is also a form of action.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.