Quotes About Determination

We are each of us stronger than we think.

Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.

For by these the mind doth turn and convert any impediment whatsoever, to be her aim and purpose. So that what before was the impediment, is now the principal object of her working; and that which before was in her way, is now her readiest way.

Be a boxer, not a gladiator, in the way you act on your principles. The gladiator takes up his sword only to put it down again, but the boxer is never without his fist and only has to clinch it.

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

Be like a promontory against which the waves are always breaking. It stands fast, and stills the waters that rage around it.

self-reliance and an unequivocal determination not to leave anything to chance;

Why all the guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road follow it. Cheerfully, without turning back.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

A man of faith is also full of courage

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

No matter how many obstacles may block your path, or how dark the way, if you look up, think up, and struggle up, you can't help succeeding. Whatever you do for a living, whatever fortune or misfortune, hold the victorious attitude and push ahead.

Show the world that you respect yourself, that you believe in yourself, and that no matter how hard the way, you are marching on to victory. Show by your expression that you can think and plan for yourself, that you have a forceful mentality.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

I'm not senile, I snapped. If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are.

Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.