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Quotes About Determination

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
~ A. W. Tozer
The New World failures may have been greater, the disasters more excessive, the consequences more brutal, but there's a bounce in every fall, a spit on the palm's new start for every setback.
~ A.A. Gill
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
~ A.A. Milne
When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
~ A.A. Milne
Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.
~ A.A. Milne
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.
~ A.A. Milne
So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!
~ A.A. Milne
You're braver than you think, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
~ A.A. Milne
Wiem, ?e to si? wydaje ?atwe - powiedzia? Prosiaczek do siebie - ale nie ka?dy to potrafi
~ A.A. Milne
Du mußt nicht groß sein, um Großes zu vollbringen.
~ A.A. Milne
That strong man you mentioned earlier? You're looking at one. And we not only go after what we want, we plan when the party will happen. And then we lead the dance.
~ A.C. Arthur
Passion points to purpose.
~ A.C. Ping
Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber Sunlit pallets never thrive; Morns abed and daylight slumber Were not meant for man alive.
~ A.E. Housman
To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before.
~ A.E. Housman
What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.
~ A.J. Hartley and David Hewson
I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.' Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything.
~ A.J. Hartley and David Hewson
Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep silent.
~ Éliphas Lévi
Ma mère sait se sortir du pétrin. Ma mère fait ce qu'il y a à faire. Elle est une preuve que la vie fonctionne, même après une catastrophe.
~ Élise Turcotte
C'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte sur la volonté, sans aucune exception. - It is always the imagination that wins over the will, without exception.
~ Émile Coué
Soiés resolus de ne servir plus, et vous voilà libres.
~ Étienne de La Boétie
Para conseguir el bien que desea, el hombre emprendedor no teme ningún peligro, el trabajador no escatima ningún esfuerzo. Sólo los cobardes y los perezosos no saben ni soportar el mal, ni recobrar el bien que se limitan a desear.
~ Étienne de La Boétie
Pero yo creo que puedo escribir lo que me dé la gana, aunque sea imposible, aunque no sea verdad.
~ Ágota Kristóf
Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron's mission." "We don't mind running. Even when we don't have to.
~ Aaron Allston
Persistence trumps talent and looks every time.
~ Aaron Brown