Quotes About Determination

I had a strong presentiment during the first three years that I should never live through the enterprise, but it weakened as I came near to the end of the journey, and an eager desire to discover any evidence of the great Moses having visited these parts bound me, spell-bound me, I may say, for if I could bring to light anything to confirm the Sacred Oracles, I should not grudge one whit all the labour expended

Did Mom notice you right away?" He shook his head. "Nope." "So what did you do?" "Showed up." "Where?" "Wherever." "So you showed up wherever she was?" "Or wherever she might be." "That must've taken a lot of time," I said. Dad shrugged. "Worth it.

I'll NEVER be beaten!

Chuck swore he would never leave him again so long as he lived. He lost his own sense of failure in making it up to London for the blow he had dealt him. London responded in a way far beyond anything Chuck could have expected. As a result, Chuck Eisenmann, with London, found a new career crowned by success beyond his highest hopes in the world of baseball.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Those who forever seek the will of God are overrun by those who do it.

If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

When you step in the ring, your arms are just too short to box with God.

God gave me both a brain and a body, and I shall use them both.

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I'll take that any day.

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.

When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.

Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.

Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.