Quotes About Determination

What a barbaric way to rise into the air, hauling your own carcass up inches at a time.

The fetus wished to live. Stubbornly, sometimes astonishingly-the fetus struggled to live. But the power of its life-or its death-had to reside with the mother. No other alternative was possible.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yet within seconds she summoned her steely will, this will that so impressed Dirk Burnaby, for he'd never encountered anything like it in his life, establishing where she was, and why. The bad dream was outside her, in the world. She must conquer it there or nowhere.

Mom was stubborn, and eloquent.

If you act like something's too hard, it will be, he said. You got to believe it's possible.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory

You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.

If you are facing a difficult task don't put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

When you put your feet on the floor every morning, Hell should shake!

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

All of us have the privilege and responsibility of choosing our attitudes, no matter what circumstances or situations we find ourselves in. The key word here is choosing. Attitudes don't just happen; they are the products of our choices.

Don't wait to "feel" like doing a thing to do it. Live by decision, not emotion.

If you desire victory over your problems, if you truly want to live the resurrection life, you must have backbone and not just wishbone! You must be active—not passive. Right action begins with right thinking. Don't be passive in your mind. Start today choosing right thoughts.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." —Saint Francis of Assisi

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear. Bold people do what they know they should do—not what they feel like doing.

Do whatever you can do, and refuse to sit and do nothing. Remember, do what you can do, and God will do what you cannot do.