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Determination Quotes

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– “It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – William Somerset Maugham

– “It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.” – John J. Watson

– “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – John Calvin Coolidge

– “The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.” – James Corbett

– “Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” – Anthony (Tony) Robbins

– “A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough.” – Ronald Reagan

– “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal

– “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi

– “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

– “The more you prepare, the luckier you appear.” – Terry Josephson

– “If-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.” – Unknown

– “Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.” – Dr. A. B. Meldrum

– “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” – Robert Hughes

Success Quotes

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In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. – Donald Trump

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. – Donald Trump

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. – Charles Schwab

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockfeller

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. – John D. Rockfeller

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. – John D. Rockfeller

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character. – John D. Rockfeller

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. – Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. – Henry Ford

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. – Henry Ford

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own. – Henry Ford

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley

Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. – David Frost

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. – Dale Carnegie

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it. – W. C. Fields

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vince Lombardi

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. – Ross Perot

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. – Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. – Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. – Dale Carnegie

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. – Dale Carnegie

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. – Sam Ewing

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching. – Tennessee Williams

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. – Kevin Spacey

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. – Arnold H. Glasow

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.  – Henry Ford

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is. – Donald Trump

Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing. – Donald Trump

If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed. – Juliana Hatfield

Famous Motivational Sports Quotes

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Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. – Mike Ditka

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. – Walter Payton

If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. – Dick Vermeil

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

In the 8th winning you can’t hear the roar of the 9th. All you can do to hold yourself together, and trust. – Jim Abbott

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up. – Vince Lombardi

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I’m done. – Tom Osborne

Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King

Best Motivational Sports Quotes for Kids

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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. – Vince Lombardi

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip. – Bud Wilkinson

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy. – Arthur Ashe

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure. – Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there. – Venus Williams

In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. – Althea Gibson

Motivational Sports Quotes

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Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless. – Red Blaik

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win. – Sam Huff

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. – Ferdinand Foch

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. – Vince Lombardi

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. – Mike Singletary

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. – Sydney Smith

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win. – Arnold Palmer

Competing in sports has taught me that if I’m not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. – Ron Blomberg

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat. – Herschel Walker

Sports Quotes

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“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” – Heywood Broun

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” – George Orwell

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” – Vince Lombardi

“I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out.” – Rodney Dangerfield

“Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.” – George F. Will

“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi

“Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.” – Anthony Starr

“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.” – Steve Garvey

“The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.” – Nick Seitz

If you…

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– “If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.”

– “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”

– “If you are headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns.”

– “If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.”

– “If you are not big enough to lose you are too small to win.”

– “If you are not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.” – Leo Tolstoy

– “If you are not fired with enthusiasm, then you will be fired with enthusiasm.” – Vince Lombardi

– “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate.”

– “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese Proverb

– “If you are willing to admit you are wrong when you are wrong, you are all right.”

– “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

– “If you believe everything you read, don’t read” – Chinese proverb

– “If you came and you found a strange man teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you’d kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don’t think twice about it.” – Jerome Singer

– “If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death…you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.”

– “If you can keep your head while all about are losing theirs and blaming it on you – perhaps you have underestimated the seriousness of the situation.”

– “If you can laugh with a person, you can work with a person.”

– “If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.”

– “If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?” – Shantideva

– “If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to serve as a horrible warning.”

– “If you can’t be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.”

– “If you can’t control the wind, adjust your sail.”

– “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” – Harry S. Truman

Inspirational & Motivational Quotes

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– “I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can do something. And that I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.” – Edward Everett Hale

– “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” – E.B. White

– “I call all times soon.” – Aslan (from The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader)

– “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

– “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

– “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the battlefield of victory.” – Vince Lombardi

– “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali

– “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis

– “I have no desire to be a teenager again. I think that would be beyond nature in a very, very dangerous way. And, in fact, this goes back to the parables of Dorian Gray and Peter Pan about eternal youth. It’s disastrous. It’s incredibly toxic. Within our culture in general, there’s a lot of people trying to prolong their youth, in disastrous ways. It just doesn’t work. The human body has finite limits.” – John Savage

– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison

– “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Chinese Proverb

– “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” – Helen Keller

– “I make myself rich by making my wants few.” – Henry David Thoreau

– “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

– “I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.” – Diane Sawyer

– “I will never look at a firefighter the same way again. What is it in someone, hundreds of them, to compel them to run into a burning building while everyone else is running out…just to save people they don’t even know? Their bravery has become part of our collective national legacy. Their bravery dignifies us all.” – Bill Hybels

– “I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that’s not what happiness really is.” – Alanis Morissette

Life’s Wisdom Quotes

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“The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – Unknown

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown

“We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.” – Unknown

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler

“All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for…There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.” –George MacDonald

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau

“He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, that is when you command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King

Vince Lombardi Quotes

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– “A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.”

– “Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”

– “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

– “Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”

– “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

– “Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”

– “I don’t think there’s a punch-line scheduled, is there?”

– “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”

– “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”

– “If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”

– “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”

– “If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”

– “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

– “It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.”

– “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

– “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

– “Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

– “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”

– “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

– “People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”