Quotes about Determination

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary.

When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore, I sometimes think: Friend, the fault is in your drawing. I don't regret for a moment that I did not go in for watercolour and oil painting straight away. I am sure I will catch up if only I struggle on, so that my hand does not waver in drawing and perspective.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed