Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling rather than feel your way into a new way of acting.
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
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.
You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
"You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your deep, driving desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny."
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.