Quotes About Determination

Get through he must, and would, no matter

I can't do it!' I wailed, half in jest. 'You are doing it.' he replied.

There are times in our lives when the Lord calls us to seize the opportunities presented us. When we must, no matter how hard or fearful, summon the courage to step out into the unknown, brave the darkness, and embrace the dawn. With the Lord's help, though, such seemingly impossible feats become not only attainable, but essential.

I am doing it because the time is now, and I am here.

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

was heartened by her assertion that "most people come

And though Clara couldn't speak, she determined that she would no longer be aimless. Whatever wit or pluck she had would be used for one thing: clearing Mrs. Glendoveer's name.

I believe it's a privilege, madam. One that's earned through a certain amount of courage and adversity.

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

One foot in front of the other. This is how a person walks... A trail unfolding just ahead of each footstep... resilient underfoot.

Kathryn Hughes

Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

Courage... is fear holding on just a bit longer.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. —Charles F. Kettering businessman

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. —George Washington Carver scientist

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit. —Meridel Le Sueur writer and activist

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt humanitarian

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. —Pablo Picasso artist

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. —Sivananda Saraswati

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. —Abraham Lincoln U.S. president

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. —Isak Dinesen writer

Do It! Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. —Theodore Roosevelt U.S. president

It always seems impossible until it's done. —Nelson Mandela politician and activist

Tell me what I'll be doing. Washing windows? Sweeping floors?" She cocked her head. "No, you'll be working with the kids as my aide." His whole face closed down. His hands fisted briefly. He reminded her of a picture in a Sunday school book she'd seen when she was little of a sinner condemned to hell. "No, I won't, Ms. McPherson. I will not, ever, be working with kids." "But that's all we have here for you to do.