"Strength does not come from physical capacity; it comes from an indomitable will." -Mahatma Ghandi
“The team that has the greatest desire to win will win if the two teams are evenly matched.” –George Halas
"The will to win. The attitude 'that you can win if you want to badly enough' means that the will to win is constant and no amount of punishment, no amount of effort, or no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner’s ideals and dreams.” –Bruce Lee
"We must keep moving. Do not sit down. Do not say 'I have done enough.' Always see what else you can do to raise hell with the enemy. You must have a desperate determination to continually go forward." –George S. Patton
“So don’t get tired of doing what is good. Don’t get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time.” -Galatians 6:9
“If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must then really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things.” -William James
“Whenever you start — give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone isn’t enough; dreaming about it isn’t enough; thinking about it isn’t enough. You’ve got to study for it, work for it, fight for it with all your heart and soul, because nobody is going to hand it to you.” -Colin Powell
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." -Satchel Paige
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Mental toughness is also the perfectly disciplined will. The strength of your group is in your will—in the will of the leader. The difference between a successful man and others is not in the lack of strength, nor in the lack of knowledge, but rather, in the lack of will. The real difference between men is the energy. It is in the strong will, the settled purpose, the invincible determination.” –Vince Lombardi
"Fight is a determined effort to do the very best we can do. On the basketball court, fight is measured by hustle: diving to the floor for loose balls, sprinting to fill a lane on a fast break, taking a charge, picking up a missed defensive assignment or stealing the ball from an opposing player. It's digging in, gritting our teach, standing our ground.” –John Wooden
“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 from trying.’” -Jim Rohn
“When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, “I’m going to prove you wrong!” -Picabo Street
“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus
“Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do.” -Paul Meyer
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” -Og Mandino
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” -Harry S. Truman
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald
“I think I’d like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination… that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results.” -Sylvester Stallone
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” -Victor Hugo
“He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” -Brian Tracy
“To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence.” -Samuel Smiles
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” -Abraham Lincoln
“If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ‘Here goes number seventy-one!’” -Richard M. DeVoss
“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” -Leonardo da Vinci
“I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.” -William Hazlitt
