Quotes on Determination Motivational

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

The best way out is always through.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.