Quotes About Determination

from J. K. Rowling

The promise of constancy, once given, binds its maker for as long as the power to stand by the decision survives and the understanding of the issue has not changed so fundamentally as to render the commitment obsolete.….

She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.

When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.

I'm not the smartest guy, but I can outwork you. It's the one thing I can control.

Failure is how we learn—it's how we develop and acquire grit.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —VINCE LOMBARDI Steve

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

Being a McKettrick meant claiming a piece of ground to stand on and putting your roots down deep into it. Holding on, no matter what came at you. It meant loving with passion and taking the rough spots with the smooth. It meant fighting for what you wanted, letting go when that was the best thing to do.

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Being able to say "I'll try again" is one of the deepest expressions of faith in oneself. When

I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do . . . . And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives.

Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win.

Women," Nellie answered. "Women kicking butt all over the place.

No!" Nellie said fiercely. "I got into it because of the money. But now --

I can't go to another country, Salva thought. If I do, my family will never find me. . . . Marial put his arm around Salva's shoulders. He seemed to know what Salva was thinking, for he said, "It doesn't matter. Don't you know that if we keep walking east, we'll go all the way around the world and come right back here to Sudan? That's when we'll find our families!

One step at a time... one day at a time. Just today-just this day to get through... Salva told himself this every day. He told the boys in the group, too. And one day at a time, the group made it's way to Kenya. More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut Rochester, New York 2010

A step at a time. One problem at a time—just figure out this one problem. Day by day, solving one problem at a time, Salva moved toward his goal.

To young people, I would like to say: Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

Heather learned from her immigrant parents not to complain, not to look back, not to blame others, not to be weighed down by regret, but instead to put her head down, work relentlessly, and soldier ahead.