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Quotes About Determination

We all lose sometimes. Life's plenty easy when you're winning. It's what you do when you're down. That's the real test.
~ Jami Attenberg
I didn't have it in me," I say. "The minute I felt unsupported I gave up. I saw that to be a painter meant a lifetime of not being supported.
~ Jami Attenberg
To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to carry on.
~ Jami Attenberg
To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to carry on. I am beginning to realize I don't want to be rejected my entire life. Felicia
~ Jami Attenberg
Like a football being held underwater, as soon as you let go, it rises to the surface. And like the grass pressing up through the cracks in a city pavement, your resilience and clarity is always doing its best to find its way through the paving slabs of your superstitious thinking.
~ Jamie Smart
Never let anyone tell you that you're too big, too small, too skinny, too weak, too slow, too dumb, or too much this or not enough that to accomplish your dream. Anything is possible when you work hard and believe in yourself.
~ Jamin Thompson
There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
~ Jan Ashford
The one who never draws a bow, never strikes.
~ Jan Guillou
I see that you are not happy with our command,' said the archbishop. 'No, Your Grace. I've tried to acquit myself well here at the cloister, and I don't mean to boast in any way when I say that, but I can honestly argue that I've done my best,' said Arn, crushed.
~ Jan Guillou
The moment we are thinking something is impossible it happen to Us.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
its Easy for going with every wind but if go the wrong direction, we ourselves will have to embarked the sails tightening for to go in a different and Good direction.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Some People have Different Faces but Remember with one Face we will always go to the End.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
The one with the Strong Character is Satisfied with Everything.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
With a Positive Mind There is Nothing to Big or a Road to Long for Reaching our Destination.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Maybe iT Goes Sometimes not so fast in nature, but it show us every time again that it never will give up and how powerful it is.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
The Impossible Will Not always Only be Possible If we Ourselves Create IT.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
~ Jan Karon
To roughly paraphrase Paul, why do I do what I don't want to do and don't do what I want to do?
~ Jan Karon
Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
~ Jan Karon
You love him, I can see it.' 'More than anything.' That alone should be enough, he thought, but of course it never is. Courage has to come in there somewhere, and perseverance and forbearance and patience and all the rest. A job of work, as Uncle Billy would say, but worth it and then some.
~ Jan Karon
You love him, I can see it." "More than anything." That alone should be enough, he thought, but of course it never is. Courage has to come in there somewhere, and perseverance and forbearance and patience and all the rest. A job of work, as Uncle Billy would say, but worth it and then some.
~ Jan Karon
And so I enjoyed the warm feelings, the stuff of the heart, when it was present between us, as it sometimes was, even in the beginning. And when it wasn't, there was the will to love him, something like . . . a generator kicking in, a backup.
~ Jan Karon
Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!
~ Jan Karon
Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.
~ Jan Karon