Quotes about Determination
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.
— Charles Swindoll
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.
— John Adams
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."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Attitude is altitude.
— Nick Vujicic
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
— H. Norman Wright
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
— Hannah More
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
— Hannah More
God does not send the problem, the illness, the accident, the hurricane, and God does not take them away when we find the right words and rituals with which to beseech Him. Rather, God sends us strength and determination of which we did not believe ourselves capable, so that we can deal with, or live with, problems that no one can make go away.
— Harold S. Kushner
not take them away when we find the right words and rituals with which to beseech Him. Rather, God sends us strength and determination of which we did not believe ourselves capable, so that we can deal with, or live with, problems that no one can make go away.
— Harold S. Kushner
Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.'" (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
— Harris Faulkner
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
— Harry S. Truman