Quotes about Determination

The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it's there. Knowing that you're facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it.

I can do this forever. It's like adjusting a pair

Tennis has a Dip. The difference between a mediocre club player and a regional champion isn't inborn talent—it's the ability to push through the moments where it's just easier to quit. Politics has a Dip as well—it's way more fun to win an election than to lose one, and the entire process is built around many people starting while most people quit.

A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner. Before

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason.

Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you're going to get there one way or another . . . so they follow.

Quitting creates scarcity; scarcity creates value.

The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives and in the life of America.

You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.