Quotes About Determination

Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.

I'm glad to be here right now, poking at my threshold. I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don't want to shrink back just because something isn't easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can't and I can. Maybe that spot is called I will.

I may not be desperate. But I'm close.

Courage is fear you ignore.

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway.

If there's one thing I never do, it's stop.

life—and the law—is hard on women. Sometimes doing the right thing is no help at all.

The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very end of this great land. And now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life.

For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered.

This time I really am going to light the world on fire,' she said, laughing. 'I finally have a fucking match.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

There's nothing wrong with being scared...It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we're afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.

She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life.

The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very edge of this great land, and now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again.

we] have a mighty dislike of all intentional effort and are addicted to absolute laziness until circumstances prod [us] into action.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

The light may well be dying, but we will rage, rage against it; and be assured, we will never go gentle into that good night.

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off."

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.