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Quotes About Determination

Sometimes it's easier to overcome a fall and a break than the fear of failure.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Write there. In the weak spot of impossibility.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
It is easier to make excuses than changes.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
This is what it looks like to rise above the circumstances and determine to hold on to the greater good in the grand scheme of things: honoring God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Shallow desires produce only shallow efforts.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I want the flowers but not the work. Isn't that the way it is with many things in life—we want the results but have no desire to put in the work required?
~ Lysa TerKeurst
But this journey is so much more than just that. It really is about learning to tell myself no and learning to make wiser choices
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails (Proverbs 19:21). Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed (Proverbs 16:3). In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps (Proverbs 16:9).
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Dare to set your toes firmly on the pathway of victory you are meant to be on. Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices made five minutes ago. The next choice. Our very next choice. May it be that of an overcomer. An overcomer made to crave God alone.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I determined to make God, rather than food, my focus. Each time I craved something I knew wasn't part of my plan, I used that craving as a prompt to pray. I craved a lot. So, I found myself praying a lot.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Forgiveness isn't an act of my determination. Forgiveness is only made possible by my cooperation.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
It's not the "how to" I'm missing. It's the "want to" . . . really wanting to make changes and deciding that the results of those changes are worth the sacrifice.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Move forward. And determine not to make it all so complicated.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
willpower. Keep going!
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I'm just determined - determined not to go places I don't want to go simply because I didn't take the time to honestly evaluate. 70
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Perseverance means having an urgency, firmness, resolve, and consistency.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Progresa. Solo progresa. Está bien tener reveses y la necesidad de volver a hacerlo. Está bien trazar una línea en la arena y empezar de nuevo… y de nuevo. Solo asegúrate de seguir moviendo la línea hacia delante. Avanza. Da pasitos de bebé, pero al menos da pasos que impidan que te quedes atascada. Entonces vendrá el cambio. Y será bueno.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
She refuses to be a victim of a circumstance she can't fully change. Instead she changes what she can.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As "fail".
~ Unknown
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve but the will to labour.
~ Unknown
Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!
~ Unknown
Success never needs an excuse.
~ Unknown
Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir men's souls. President Spencer W. Kimball
~ Unknown
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
~ Unknown