Quotes about Determination

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Everything happens at one step at a time.

I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.