Determination Quotes

"It's the days you have every right to breakdown and fall apart, yet choose to show up anyway that matter most. Don't diminish the small steps that others can't see."

- Brittany Burgunder

"I confess, I have setbacks like anyone. But they don’t cause distress or coalesce in a mess for I’ve learned to step back, to reflect and assess where I’m at and enact a simple plan of attack — to press forward, progress; not digress, not give up nor express my despair but address what I can, my mistakes and my faults, with a head-on assault. For I’m blessed with my faith and belief and a chest that encases a heart that does not know the meaning of “quit" or “give up" or “there there” or “oh well”, “never-mind” or “bad luck” or “just try something else”, no. Me and myself, my reflection and I, we are not of that ilk, we aren’t ones to comply. We aren’t ones to conform or accept that the norm is a one-size-fits-all way to simply exist for we strive to be different, incredible, unique. Not irrelevant, invisible, insignificant or meek. We strive to resist and we fight to excel, so setbacks to us are a thing to be quashed, to be quelled, to be squished, to be left in our wake as we go on our way, as we sail right on by to impossible ends, to what few dare to try. This is why – this is why – as my reflection attests, there is no time to rest. The struggle is unending … but I will give it my best."

- Shaun Hick

"Facta non verba (Translation: Deeds, not words)"

- Canadian Joint Task Force

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to know in order to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact we haven't so far."

- Ron Edmonds

"A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn't feel like it."

- Alistair Cook

"My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest."

- Charles Dickens

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected, mind all conquering mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I have a congenital aversion to failure."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Never try to outstubborn a cat."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"I’m going to beat this cancer or die trying."

- Michael Landon

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it."

- Alistair Cook

"I don’t want to be thought of as the ‘girl who was shot by the Taliban’ but the ‘girl who fought for education. This is the cause I want to devote my life."

- Malala Yousafzai

"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

- Margaret Thatcher

"When I made 'Real,' I recorded it over the phone in prison. I did it in a week. I had no idea what it was going to sound like. I couldn't even listen to the masters before it came out, I couldn't listen to 90% of the beats. I recorded 21 songs in seven days."

- Anuel AA

"Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never."

- Karl G. Maeser

"Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don’t want to play, but I really don’t want to let you down."

- Deion Sanders

"You have to be relentless in the pursuit of your goals."

- Deion Sanders

"I’ve enjoyed training again, I’ve enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I’ll keep on swimming until I feel I cannot get any more out of myself."

- Ian Thorpe

"Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything."

- Aaron Peirsol

"In training, I always brought my attention back to how I wanted to feel in my races. If I need to work on my body position at the end of my races, then I would push myself in practice to the point of exhaustion then work on my body position when exhausted."

- Natalie Coughlin

"Olympic champions should be 100 percent athletes who have made sacrifices."

- Adam Peaty

"Find A Way Or Make One"

- Hustle Inspires Hustle

"The question isn't who's going to let me, it's who's going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"I believe that you get what you want, if you want it badly enough."

- Sophia Loren

"Fight For What You Believe In"

"Cancer may have started the fight, but I will finish it."

"Find a way or make a way."

- Unknown