Quotes about Determination

I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.

Don't feel sorry for me.

I don't I don't really care what people expect me to do at these Games. It's all about me. It might sound a little selfish, but it's what I want to accomplish and reaching my potential. Everything else, everybody else's opinion, they can kick rocks.

Champions make their own luck.

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish.

It was no ordinary DESIRE that survived disappointment, discouragement, temporary defeat, criticism, and the constant reminding of waste of time. It was a BURNING DESIRE! AN OBSESSION!

his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, "but," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

The habit of planting in the mind a definite aim, objective, or purpose, and visualizing that objective until ways and means for its realization have been created.