Quotes About Determination

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled," he argued. "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again . . . who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

He would say, 'I have a strong wife, you know, people don't realize how strong Ruth is.

God wants us to walk humbly with him. To live in this way is to have the praise of God on our lips and a settled determination to be obedient to God in our hearts.

We are defined by how we react to setbacks.

When I said no, she stood in the light. When I gave up, she said 'forever'.

Sometimes the hardest thing you have to do is fight when you'd rather just give up. You can't give up. No matter what. Not even if your heart is breaking. Not even if everything and everyone you love has been taken from you. You must keep going. Because sometimes, the fight is all you have.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

You must not let them bother you, Leisha," he said in his wonderful accent. "Not ever. There is an old Asian proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.' You must never let your individual caravan be slowed by the barking of rude or envious dogs.

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

I'm only as brave as I have to be . . . and I do not want to have to be this brave.

Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.

He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.

Romans 4:18, "hope against hope.

Robert walked faster than usual, and I had trouble keeping up with him, but I did not hold him back. I was pleased at his urgency. I understood it, for when inspired one does not amble, one runs toward the source.

That our path was hard does not mean it was not also right, nor that it is not paved with blessings.

Our actions are not simply links in a closed chain of causally connected physical events. We have the capacity to be first causes, starting a new chain of cause and effect.

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

A woman is like a teabag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. —Kobi Yamada

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. —Frank Tyger

I hope instead she rages!

Determination, the benign cousin of defiance, drove Lucy to continue enlarging her family to compensate for her lost children.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us." —Epictetus "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." —Angela Davis "If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself." "Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?" —Ruth Bader Ginsburg