Quotes About Determination

People are not poor because they've made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they're poor.

for any daughter of hers was to do more than just survive—as my mother had—she was to thrive, learning many unnecessary skills, like tap dancing.

can." I didn't think it was true, but it was kind and I clung to it and kept taking the class, and

courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers!

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Mister Hawe, you come along, not satisfied with ropin

There was a bold gleam in his eyes and a smile on his face.

She's mine. I'll fight to keep her safe from that old life. I've already seen her forget it. I love her. And if a beast ever rises in me I'll burn my hand off before I lay it on her with shameful intent. And, by God! sooner or later I'll kill the man who hid her and kept her in Deception Pass!

If you want fame or wealth or wolves, go out and hunt for them.

if she had just climbed a laborsome

Hard work makes for what I reckon you like in a man, but don't understand. As I look back over my life--an' let me say, young fellar, it's been a tough one--what I remember most an' feel best over are the hardest jobs I ever did, an' those that cost the most sweat an' blood. As

Life is hard enough, God knows, but it's unfailin' true in the end to the man or woman who finds the best in them an' stands by it. Uncle John, y'u talk so—so

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

you can't beat me and my prayers!

We Afficans try raise our chillun right. When dey say we ign'nant we go together and build de school house. Den de county send us a teacher. We Afficky men doan wait lak de other colored people till de white folks gittee ready to build us a school. We build one for ourself den astee de county to send us de teacher.