Quotes About Determination

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were

What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?

As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!

They thrive in the toughest circumstances because they know that impossible odds set the stage for amazing miracles.

There is an old adage: ready, set, go. And I know it's predicated on the importance of preparation. But I think it's backward. You'll never be ready. You'll never be set. Sometimes you just need to go for it. The sequence of faith is this: Go. Set. Ready.

opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

Most of us don't get what we want because we don't know what we want. Here's our secondary problem: Most of us don't get what we want because we quit circling.

Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster.

Without it, I'm coasting. With it, I'm gaining momentum

Ultimately, your destiny is determined by your decisions. It's your actions, and reactions, that define you. So don't play the victim. Be the victor.

If you're looking for an excuse, you'll always find one. If you're looking for an opportunity, you'll always find one.

Twenty years later, Diana Nyad would attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. She swam seventy-eight miles in forty-two hours, but strong winds stopped her short of her goal.

You don't become a praying parent by default. You do it by design, by desire, by discipline. Spiritual disciplines take sheer determination, but if you determine to circle your children in prayer, you will shape their destinies, just like Susanna Wesley shaped the destinies of her children. Your prayers will live on in their lives long after you die. Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Orar con fervor + pensar a largo plazo = mantenerse enfocado.

There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence.

Almost anyone can accomplish almost anything if they work at it long enough, hard enough, and smart enough.

it's the prayers you pray when you feel like you want to quit praying that can bring the biggest breakthroughs.

If your vision isn't perplexing and impossible, then you need to widen the diameter of your prayer circles.

One of the most exhilarating things in the world is doing something that no one thinks you can do.

Success is a derivative of persistence.

If somebody's shooting at me, it's a war. And if it isn't, I'll declare one.

I often confuse a sense of futility with a call to action.