Quotes About Determination

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it's worth it.

Carry the confidence.

when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.

I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, she thought, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commissions comes from Those Who Are.

Against all odds and despite all evidence to the contrary, still we trust that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel, of our personal tunnel anyway.

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

He couldn't go on. He went on.

the price they must pay for escaping their destiny.

I hardly suppose Wagner lost sleep worrying whether he'd hurt someone's feelings. But then he was a genius.

She made her resolution. In for a penny, in for a pound.

The incendiary magic she possessed was so strong she could set fire to water if she wanted to badly enough.

Adeline was made like a piece of wire with knots for knees and elbows.

Don't let emotions paralyze you.

Set the highest example. Remember, no one ever did anything absolutely right. Perfection is impossible, but striving for perfection is not. You have the power to do that.

would make it.

I doubt if there is such a thing as a wholly free choice, because one's choices are rooted in one's personality.

I smiled into the clever eyes. "Find out for me," I said, "whether Oliver

It isn't necessary to speculate about the driving force within us, it leaps out and reveals itself. Under pressure, it can't be hidden

Impulses like that, I answered myself, that seemed to come from nowhere, they weren't really impulses at all, they were decisions already made but waiting for an opportunity to be spoken aloud.

her to me and asked if I

Trump is determined to enforce the law. It is only by erasing the distinction between legals and illegals that the left can insist, as it blusteringly does, that "Trump is against immigrants.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.1 —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.