Quotes March 07, 2019

“If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ‘here comes number seventy-one!’.”
Richard Devos
 
 
 
 
“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also….but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don’t EVER stop.”
Steve Maraboli
 
 
 
 
“We will either find a way, or make one!”
Hannibal
 
 
 
 
“Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.”
Brian Tracy
 
 
 
 
“A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough.”
Ronald Reagan
 
 
 
 
“Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves. It has nothing to do with how many times you win or lose. It has no relation to where you finish in a race or whether you break world records. But it does have everything to do with having the vision to dream, the courage to recover from adversity and the determination never to be shifted from your goals.”
Kieran Perkins
 
 
 
 
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”
Vince Lombardi
 
 
 
 
“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”
Ghandi
 
 
 
 
“Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.”
Grace Lichtenstein
 
 
 
 
“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”
Alexander Graham Bell
 
 
 
 
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
Langston Hughes
 
 
 
 
“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.”
Jimmy Carter
 
 
 
 
“I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.”
Lee Iacocca
 
 
 
 
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Michael Jordon
 
 
 
 
“The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy – invincible determination – a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.”
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
 
 
 
 
“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”
John Christian Bovee
 
 
 
 
“It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.”
Mark Cuban
 
 
 
 
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
Charles Dickens
 
 
 
 
“It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.”
John J. Watson
 
 
 
 
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
 
 
 
“What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.” Patty Berg
 
 
 
 
“We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.”
Les Brown
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
John Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
“Winners are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.”
Unknown
 
 
 
 
“Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.”
Anonymous