Quotes on Will And Determination

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

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.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

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.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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