Quotes About Determination

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Elizabeth Mills

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish... but battle on.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

She had been raised in a house full of faith, and her parents had obviously instilled unusual confidence in her. She

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

There will be no fucking sunsets in the pages that follow.

until one is committed there is hesitancy

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

The greatest power a person possesses is the power to choose.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

God wants to show such people how strong He really is (2 Chronicles 16:9). But not all who aspire to leadership are willing to pay such a high personal price.

Leaders require courage of the highest order -- always moral courage -- and often physical courage as well. Courage is that quality of mind that enables people to encounter danger or difficulty firmly, without fear or discouragement.