Quotes About Determination

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

After examining the body, pathologists determined that Laczko had died of artherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and heat stress.

If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me.

Some wondered whether he was just kicking against the goads, but when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. "If you board the wrong train," he said, "it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction

Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, who was the first female Top Fuel dragster champion, but

God's cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be "unsuccessful": and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And if any of these forces were in the slightest degree different, our universe would not exist. But how were the values of these four fundamental forces determined, and how is it that they just happened to be precisely right for our universe to come into being?

What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.

He knew that, if left to do as he liked, he might fritter away the rest of his life, just as he'd frittered away so many years already. He knew that he didn't want to go back to where he had been before, and he would take whatever steps were necessary to ensure that he continued on the new path he was now on.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

the only fight which is lost is that which we give up.

FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. Nobody in the startup world could have such a mug, I mused; it would be ridiculous. My experience is full of situations where reality proved too unpredictable to avoid failure.

Third, many entrepreneurs are afraid. Acknowledging failure can lead to dangerously low morale. Most entrepreneurs' biggest fear is not that their vision will prove to be wrong. More terrifying is the thought that the vision might be deemed wrong without having been given a real chance to prove itself.

Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plane right into the ground. Instead, they possess a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility. The

Startup success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time.

Throughout the process of driving, you always have a clear idea of where you're going. If you're commuting to work, you don't give up because there's a detour in the road or you made a wrong turn. You remain thoroughly focused on getting to your destination.

Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plane right into the ground. Instead, they possess a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility.

If you're commuting to work, you don't give up because there's a detour in the road or you made a wrong turn. You remain thoroughly focused on getting to your destination.

We want to keep believing in our ideas even when the writing is on the wall.

we all know stories of epic entrepreneurs who managed to pull out a victory when things seemed incredibly bleak. unfortunately,we don't hear stories about the countless nameless others who persevered too long, leading their companies to failure.

make a sharp turn called a pivot or whether we should persevere along our current path.

Eric S. Brown