Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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