Quotes About Determination

there was something in me that was sick of fear and aw, of gazing at the heavens and wondering what someone would allow me

I believed that she would rather set the world on fire than lose.

They will seek to undermine you at every turn.

I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.

Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow.

I would not go on anymore weaving my cloths by day and unravelling them again at night, making nothing.

I let the pebbles tumble to the ground from my fingers, where they lie, haphazard or purposeful, an augury or an accident. If Chiron were here, he could read them, tell us our fortunes. But he is not here. "What if he will not beg?" I ask. "Then he will die. They will all die. I will not fight until he does." His chin juts, bracing for reproach. I am worn out. My arm hurts where I cut it, and my skin feels coated with unwholesome sweat. I do not answer.

Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

These are the little losers in the bunny derby, but they lose on a different route than the Mariannes, or the ones you see in the supermarket on the nights when they double the green stamps, coming in junk cars, plodding the bright aisles, snarling at their cross sleepy kids.

Would you rather I found you a place of your own right away?" "It doesn't matter." "Which would you rather do?" The effort of decision brought her out of her torpor. She made fists and her lips tightened. "I guess I have to be with you.

She trudged along, dutiful as a naughty child.

If you keep things in the front of your mind, you worry at them like a hound chomping a dead rabbit.

The world is the same world. You make it or you don't make it, honey. Nobody picks you up and brushes you off and gives you another run at it.

But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't know what it is, but I got a kind of feel for the big money.

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

This is the time for a young man to stop saying, "Why is life so hard?" He takes the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, take it on.

It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope. RABBI JONATHAN SACKS, Celebrating Life

Friend, you must be intentional about holding on to the truth.

Dear friend, this fear is a mighty powerful force.

Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.

Be men of courage; be strong. —1 CORINTHIANS 16:13 NIV

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

When the going gets tough, the tuff get going.

Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!