Quotes about Determination

While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility . . . In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." —Martin Luther King Jr.

Success consists of a series of little daily victories." —Laddie F. Hutar

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. To become someone who can mine a lot of gold, you need to keep repeating the process of good thinking.

Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.

A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

My friend Nancy Dornan says, "The longest distance between two points is a shortcut." That's really true. For everything of value in life, you pay a price. As you desire to grow in a particular area, figure out what it will really take, including the price, and then determine to pay it.

Every time we choose action over ease we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect, and self-confidence.

Successful people think differently than unsuccessful people.

More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence.