Quotes About Determination

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the center of your own life and take charge.

If I'm going to call myself a person of faith, I need to be willing to live a life that actually requires faith.

Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

Never Say Never if you know you can do what you love don't give up.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

What bends does not break.

While the women in Alaska certainly knew they were physically weaker than most men, it never meant they weren't cleaver enough to find a way to get the job done

I was so lucky to be raised believing in some part of myself—believing that if I put my mind to something, I should be able to figure it out.

When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

9"I charge you: Be strong and resolute; do not be terrified or dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

I'm heavy stone, me. You try and pick me up, I'll break your spine.

Anger rose in me. Didn't they know how hard I'd been working to overcome my family background? Now all my efforts were wasted.

Now you can show your revolutionary determination." He paused. "We want you to testify against your father at the struggle meeting.

We cannot choose our families or our class sums. But we can choose our own futures." He spoke very slowly and clearly. "No, you are not a leader, but you are still an 'educable child.' You can overcome your family background." He

Most important, I had to be willing to try. The try is everything. The try is me saying to my brain, hey, I value this connection and I want it to happen. I may have to try, try, and try again with no results for a thousand times before I get even an inkling of a result, but if I don't try, it may never happen. G.G.

For many of us, once we have made a decision, then we are attached to that decision forever. I have found that often the last thing a really dominating left hemisphere wants is to share its limited cranial space with an open-minded right counterpart!