We live in a culture that celebrates determination and hard work, but understand, these are the qualities that keep you in the game after most everybody else has left – or until somebody bigger and stronger picks you up and hurls you back out to sea.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
As for myself, in sport you have to question yourself every week and be ready in your head, and you have to be at 100% of determination if you want to keep going and win games; you cannot afford to be at 80% or 90%.
Warsaw’s historic heart was deliberately almost entirely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War by the German occupying troops. After the war, it was painstakingly rebuilt and that reconstruction is perceived as expressing the nation’s determination to survive, to conserve its history and its culture.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Joe Gibbs helped define what the Washington Redskins stand for – integrity, hard work, determination, winning and championships.
People don’t see the determination behind getting on the pitch every week.
Cancer prevention requires awareness, determination and creativity.
You always give credit where credit is due – to high school coaches, college coaches – but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.
There’s a lot of heartache because you don’t always win. You need loads of determination.
The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.
Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.
As soon as I put on gloves, I knew. I felt heart and determination. It’s in you, not on you. I just loved to fight and I knew that it was going to take me where I needed to go. I never had any doubt.
The dream doesn’t lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
I’m a fighter through and through, and I’ve got more heart and more determination than anybody.
Everyone has determination – it’s a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn’t care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we’re very, very different.
Saudi authorities must launch a campaign about the safety of female pilgrims and the determination of the authorities to ensure every woman’s safety.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for suffering, which I thought was important, but also determination.
We have given up office, but not our responsibility to serve the nation. We have lost an election, but not our determination.
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
What I love about the East End is that there’s a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our ‘accepting’ and ‘willing’ are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the ‘Bourne’ movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system – his focus fried away unnecessary calories.
I want to make history and just show people that if you have determination and if you want to work hard enough and want something, you can make it happen.
I don’t believe in getting lucky, I never have – luck is actually being ready to take advantage of an opportunity when it arises because you have the skill set you need and the drive and determination to do it.
You still slightly down that you’re ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That’s the territory of being an actor. It’s like anything that’s competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
The power of music, and the power of your determination in life, especially when you’re playing extreme metal like this… it just conquers. It conquers everything.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Today’s message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.
I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it’s just about your drive and your dream.
I owe my drive and determination to my upbringing, which instilled in me a set of values that make me who I am.
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
My faith in Islam is not unlike my faith in the game of basketball: Both require immense determination, focus, passion and discipline.
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
I know what it’s like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?
As president, my father will take on the bold and worthy fights. He will be unafraid to set lofty goals, and he will be relentless in his determination to achieve them.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary.
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.
I didn’t get in to ‘Strictly’ the first time, but my determination and enthusiasm shone through and got me a job on the show the following year. Don’t give up and turn the no’s and setbacks into a positive!
It’s truly amazing to see where determination and drive will lead you.
All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it’s impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn’t left an imprint through the generations. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me – I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
Jenny McCarthy has used her celebrity and sex appeal to attract attention to autism. And while no one questions McCarthy’s determination and passion, many scientists have debunked her anti-vaccine message and her claims that a gluten-free diet can provide a cure.
We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
Our judiciary has a reputation for intellectual rigour, careful consideration of the arguments, and a serious-minded determination to each decision based on what is right and not necessarily what is superficially popular. I am not sure that all politicians have the same reputation.
