Quotes about Determination

Prayer does not alter that which God has determined; it never changes anything. It merely achieves what He has already foreordained.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

While her emotions were very real and they gnawed at her with a raw sincerity, she was listening to something deeper. She was listening to her will, not letting what she felt dictate what she would do. Didn't let it dictate her life.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you're fighting the wrong battle.

I will not let the fear of what might be rob me of the promise of what can.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

I hope very soon to be better, for I have removed my Family into the Country, to my old Habitation at Braintree, and have determined to shake off a little of that Load of public and private Care which has for some Time oppressed me. If I had not, I should soon have shaken off this mortal Body.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement. One elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."