Quotes About Determination

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.

In knowledge work … the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon At

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.—Elbert Hubbard

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward solution. Do something. —George F. Nordenholt

Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out. —Will Rogers

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. —George Bernard Shaw

In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined.

People love to win. If you're not totally clear about the purpose of what you're doing, you have no chance of winning.

You often need to make it up in your mind before you can make it happen in your life.

Your mind will keep working on anything that's still in that undecided state.

When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.

If you can imagine doing something, then you can do it.

Ella helped. Yes, she was a dreamer, but she had a way of doing her work without any fuss. She didn't understand the struggles some of us went through. If you had to write 1500 words you wrote 1500 words. You put one word then another then another then another.

It's sad but true. Most people who just "go with the flow" wind up complaining about where they "floated." They go around saying life is not fair. Well, I disagree. Life is totally fair. You get what you go for. Go for nothing and you get nothing. Go for something and, even if you miss your main goal, you might still achieve a lot of good stuff along the way.

There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough.

Well, honey, I'm a sixty-three-year-old fat woman with sore feet, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of diabetes. I know I don't have all that much time left, and I can either spend it moping and complaining about the things I never got to in life, or I can do something I love and help people along the way. I decided to keep plugging 'til I drop.

We've got some unholy badasses in here, as you know. But nobody

It takes courage to speak your heart, when others do not want you to.

There's really

David Baldacci

These were the moments in my life where clear choices could be made. Do it or don't do it. Often, the decision was difficult.