Quotes about Determination
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Being one of the best in the world, you want to go against one of the best in the world - one-on-one, man-on-man.
- Mike Evans
I was a wicket-keeper who opened the batting. Could I have made it? Hard to say. I probably wouldn't quite have been good enough. I might get back into it once I've finished with the football.
- James Milner
Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!
- Oscar Wilde
One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
- Oscar Wilde
What would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn't fail?" When I got that, I thought, Of course, I would just go for it! And that's what you've got to do every single day of your thirties and beyond. Just go for it! Your life is now.
- Pamela Redmond Satran
These are lessons Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars certainly takes to heart.
- Dale Carnegie
Yes, everyone faces challenges in their lives, and people commonly say it doesn't matter what the challenge is; what matters is how one responds to it.
- Dale Carnegie
I discovered years ago that although I couldn't keep people from criticizing me unjustly, I could do something infinitely more important: I could determine whether I would let the unjust condemnation disturb me.
- Dale Carnegie
Commitment is not sustained by confusion but by insight. The person who is uninformed or confused will inevitably be unstable and vulnerable in action, thought and feeling.
- Dallas Willard
You must make the decision to have Jesus with you. A decision is an inward resolve to do whatever is necessary to bring something to pass.
- Dallas Willard
The faith of desperation—trusting faith—digs in, holds on, clings tight, and says, "I don't care what's going to happen, I am holding on to God!
- Dallas Willard