Quotes About Determination

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need—just in time.

I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And

When we determine in our hearts to be thankful—in all circumstances—we open the door to God's unexpected blessing and provision.

Apparently I looked strong enough for harder work; I was told to report to the Phillips factory.

We knew that in spite of daily mounting risks we had no choice but to move forward. This was evil's hour: we could not run away from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

At last she pointed to a second tier in the center of a large block. To reach it we had to stand on the bottom level, haul ourselves up, and then crawl across three other straw-covered platforms to reach the one that we would share with—how many?

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

They wanted me to crawl," she told Magdalena finally. "And I'm ready to run.

I found my inner bitch and ran with her.

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress.

A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.

Complete it-you cannot sell an unfinished book.