B. C. Forbes Quotes

Courage is how bad you want it.

A fighter with heart will almost always win out against a fighter with skill but no will.

Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

You can get through anything if you want it bad enough.

When push comes to shove, I'm a fighter, and I'm going to force someone to fight. It takes a lot of technique, it takes a lot of skill, but to take that, and make something of it, it's a lot of heart and a lot of determination, and that's something I have. That's who I am.

It doesn't matter how tall you are if you have heart and you're a competitor.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.