Quotes About Determination

You can decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world. Or you can decide that your world is always going to be a cold, dark place.

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.

Focus on the path in front of you. Don't let any of them know they can upset you. If you let them know they can bother you, you give them power.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Never give up and never face the facts.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

The courage, the will, the guts, to fight the British, even if they end up here, like you, in Cyprus. I don't know any other place in the world where this is happening.

You've got to stay alive even if it kills you.

The depth of desire has a great deal to do with the outcome of our life. Often, those who accomplish what they set out to do in life are not those who are the most talented or gifted or who have had the best opportunities. Often they are the ones who are most deeply in touch with how badly they want whatever they want; they are the ones who consistently refuse to be deterred by the things that many of us allow to become excuses.

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.

You only stop learning when you quit.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

A single guy will do the right thing after exhausting every other option.

For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. —You (also, Martin Luther King Jr.)

Free will: Either God partially controls our free wills, or God entirely controls our free wills, but I guarantee you that we don't always have control of our free wills.

Turn your dreams into goals, turn your goals into achievements.

You don't want to be equal to your enemies, you don't want to be less than your enemies, you want to be enough times greater to conquer the sum total, the absolute value, of your enemies.

Your mind is like a tug o' war, you gotta make sure the good side wins.