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Quotes About Determination

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
~ Abraham Maslow
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
~ Abraham Pais
Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon.
~ Abraham Verghese
The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.
~ Abraham Verghese
Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself...one day it all works out.
~ Abraham Verghese
it the bloody-brinjal-and-bugger-all. Which is
~ Abraham Verghese
He had become my poster boy, a walking testament to how will and belief can make up for lack of muscle, how anger can overcome blindness.
~ Abraham Verghese
Screw your courage to the sticking place." - Lady MacBeth
~ Abraham Verghese
I have no choice, which is the best kind of choice.
~ Abraham Verghese
Find your backbone, or be swallowed whole.
~ Abraham Verghese
his oar into water that is as thick and angry as boiling paddy.
~ Abraham Verghese
Dont give up great things take time
~ Actually Unknown
See, our job was simple: keep on living. Her job was harder, the hardest. Her job, her work, was to let the machine of survival break down, make the factory fail, to know that this war was winless, to know that she would singlehandedly destroy us all.
~ Ada Limón
The dog does this beautiful thing, it waits. It stills itself and determines that the waiting is essential.
~ Ada Limón
I haven't given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even
~ Ada Limón
How masterful and mad is hope.
~ Ada Limón
I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.
~ Ada Limón
How do you love? Like a fist. Like a knife.
~ Ada Limón
Dreams comes easy,,, but a determine soul plays it to reality...
~ Adah Eminentz
and fi red.
~ Adam Blade
Doing the right thing is often a lonely road
~ Adam Copeland