Quotes about Determination

I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes - not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they're looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.

Nothing in this 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 will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.

Some days, obviously, I am like 'Today is not the day,' but you got to push through, especially when my aspirations are to be pro, you can't have any bad days.

We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.