Quotes about Determination

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I was born a cripple, with two club feet, and mild polio in the left leg. I was in orthopaedic boots right through to my teenage years and, unfortunately, the fashion then was for light shoes. I discovered very quickly that I had a sharp mind and an exceedingly sharp tongue.

It's always too early to quit.

I've always known what I wanted. I've always wanted to be on top of that podium.

A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

So live real good, and get beat up real bad. Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. That's how this thing seems to work.

Rosa Parks commented, "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.