Quotes About Determination

Now when I first heard EPMD's first joint 'You Gots to Chill' and later 'So Whatcha Sayin'?' I said, 'I can do this!'

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy, jokes are never far away.

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

Francesco Giubbilini

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

What sucked was that her room was on the fourth floor of a four-story house because she hated walking past every other room on her way in and out. She was like a latter-day Rapunzel except her hair was only a few inches below her shoulders, slightly fried, not all that blond, and furthermore, who the hell was ever going to climb up to give her a hand? The guy in the wheelchair from school? What she — and Rapunzel, frankly — needed was a decent ladder.

As the crow flies. That's how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she'd get home? That wasn't the point. It didn't mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning, and she meant to put as much distance between herself and tomorrow as she could. Walking fast didn't stop the earth's slow roll, but sometimes it felt like it could.

Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.

for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The lame (as they say) in the path outstrip the swift who wander from it, and it is clear that the very skill and swiftness of him who runs not in the right direction must increase his aberration.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

The only One who has a right to shape our lives is Jesus Christ. We must determine to allow nothing and no one to shape us, not even our personal experiences, unless they are consistent with the promises of God.

There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Walking by faith is never easy. Especially when it's being tested day after day. All I can say is that giving up is not the answer.