Quotes About Determination

If she'd spun on her heel and left the room, Jack would have laughed at her retreat. And if she'd stayed, staring him down and trying to shame him into leaving, they'd probably still be standing there.

He'd follow her into hell to claim what was due to him. Unfortunately, he suspected she was headed for heaven, which was barred to him.

A man always has a choice

This woman had every right to complain about her life, the harshness of it. Instead she met it head-on and worked hard to make it better for herself.

Gentlemen, if I truly want something, you do not have it within your power to stop me from obtaining it.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I will make it a productive one.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Your diseases cannot stand in front of your determination.

Do not spend much of your energy trying to move a large rock, instead move as many smaller stones as you can

Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

It takes a busload of faith to get by.

Sometimes when I can't decide what I should do I think what would Andy have said He'd probably say you think too much That's 'cause there's work that you don't want to do It's work, the most important thing is work Work, the most important thing is work

He doesn't even know he has a choice. He really believes he has to be a loser forever.

There's no point discussing an engagement with a person determined that nothing will convince her that her love is not the be-all and end-all of her life.

Religion is concerned with man's relation to God, and man has no right to determine the nature of this relation. It is God's prerogative to specify how man should be related to Him, and He does this in His divine Word.

She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.