Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
Grace Lichtenstein [...]
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Resolve says, ‘I will’. The man says, ‘I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky and too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side [...]
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.
Buddha
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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 seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one’s own efforts.
Hannah Arendt
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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Anthony Robbins
The longer I live, the surer I become that the truest real difference between the success and the failure, between the strong and the weak, between the rich and the poor, between the great and the average, is just plain will power, invincible determination, a purpose once set and then death or victory.And no fine [...]
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
