Quotes about Determination

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.