Quotes About Determination

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

Some days he climbed over the foothills of indifference to see the landscape of his life and future for what it was: mappable, traversable, achievable.

The truth is that I do not like hanging in there. I was born, I believe, to do more. Or perhaps it's that I survived to do more. Dorsetta is married, a mother of three, and manages a restaurant; she does more than hang in there. I have a low opinion of this expression, Hang in there.

What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense of exhausted resolve, and he dealt with everything head-on.

I will reach upward. I will attempt to do better. I will not be a burden upon those who have helped me too much already. I will always be grateful for what pleasures I have enjoyed, what joys I have yet to experience. I will take opportunities as they come, but at the same time, I will not trust so easily. I will look at who is at the door before opening it. I will try to be fierce. I will argue when necessary. I will be willing to fight.

Alan was feeling strong. He did two push-ups and felt stronger still.

They brought you here so you could have choices," Ghassan said. "And you're blowing it. If you want to do something different when you grow up, you're going to have to get your shit together.

To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.

This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle.

It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It is only time and breath that stand between her and the top. She is young. She'll do it and have done it.

But how many people will? How many people live in a state of aggressive truth-seeking? The answer is few.

Courage was the beginning, being unafraid, moving ahead, through small hardships, not turning back. Courage was simply a form of moving forward.

Courage was simply a form of moving forward.

This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.

she knew he would not rest until he had done it. It was maddening. It was strange, even. But then again, she thought, it gave their marriage a certain epic scope.

The only way to keep your head above water is to convince yourself you are going to make it.

That day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me. In

I made a promise to myself that if I came out of my situation alive, I had to make something of myself.

Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

David Adams Richards

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. —Saint Francis of Assisi

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