Quotes about Determination

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Life is like a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini has an engine, a body, and wheels. No matter how strong your engine is, if you don't have any wheels, you're not going anywhere.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.