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Quotes About Determination

Choice is the hinge of destiny.
~ Edwin Markham
Indecision becomes decision with time.
~ Author Unknown
The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.
~ Author Unknown
Laziness is not a handicap — park somewhere else!
~ Author Unknown
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
~ Author Unknown
A strong will can accomplish anything... There is no such thing as inspiration, and very little of genius. Dig, blooming under opportunity, results in what appears to be the former, and certainly makes possible the development of what original modicum of the latter one may possess. Dig is a wonderful thing, and will move more mountains than faith ever dreamed of. In fact, Dig should be the legitimate father of all self-faith.
~ Jack London, 1899
Put in 5% more effort than "there's only so much I can do" and you'll be way ahead of the game.
~ Terri Guillemets
If you've climbed the jutting trees to your lofty goal, you've far outdone the unscathed ladder climbers.
~ Terri Guillemets
You're either changing your life or you're not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.
~ Terri Guillemets
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
~ American Proverb
Don't make excuses — make good!
~ Elbert Hubbard, 1909
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
~ Yiddish Proverb
You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.
~ Hap Holmstead
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
~ Proverb
It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get...
~ Rudyard Kipling, "The Lesson"
The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.
~ Author Unknown
The things you want to do are all up to you— Excuses are sabotage.
~ Terri Guillemets, 2002
I consider my refusal to go to the gym today as resistance training.
~ Author Unknown
Commit to be fit.
~ Author Unknown
Kimberly: You know what they say about uphill battles. Michael: You can't talk while you're waging them?
~ My 600-lb Life, S9, E9, 2021
Faith makes things possible, not easy.
~ Author Unknown
Blood will withstand the rocks.
~ Gaelic Proverb
This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal... His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal... This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. Nothing is effected by daemons, there are no daemons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
He who shows fear gives courage to his adversary.
~ Proverb