Quotes about Determination

What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

I have tried so hard to do right.

When I was in Class II, we used to walk about 5 km. to school. I did not know of Olympics or even athletics then. One day, a friend went in a car and left me behind. I was so angry, I wanted to run and outrace the car. I ran so fast that I tripped and fractured my knee.

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.