Quotes about Determination
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
- Alexander Hamilton
Real firmness is good for every thing— Strut is good for nothing.
- Alexander Hamilton
Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything" Malcolm X, likely quoting Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
I was scared of water, so I learnt swimming.
- Geeta Phogat
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
- William James
A weak point of mine was maybe little resolve in governing and making decisions.
- Pope Benedict XVI
People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'
- Joyce Meyer
We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.
- Scott Moir
Doesn't matter what people say, doesn't matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.
- Miguel Cabrera
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
- Joe Biden
I mean, nobody wants to lose. And nobody wants to be playing at the end of the year when you don't have a chance to make the playoffs.
- Mike Evans