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Quotes about Determination

The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed trial balloons or indecisive overtures. To postpone decision is really to decide for the status quo. In most decisions the key element is not so much knowing what to do but in living with the results.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.
— J. Oswald Sanders
That was our first time together. Interesting, an interesting experience, but not earth-shaking. But then, I never expected it to be earth-shaking, not with him. What I was determined to avoid was emotional entanglement. A passing fling was one thing, an affair of the heart quite another. Of myself I was fairly sure. I was not about to lose my heart to a man about whom I knew next to nothing.
— JM Coetzee
Faith means believing in what you do even when it does not bear visible fruit.
— JM Coetzee
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...
— Jack Kerouac
I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it
— Jack Kerouac
You have to believe in life before you can accomplish anything.
— Jack Kerouac
Now he'd bought a new suit to go back in; blue with pencil stripes, vest and all—eleven dollars on Third Avenue, with a watch and watch chain, and a portable typewriter with which he was going to start writing in a Denver rooming house as soon as he got a job there.
— Jack Kerouac
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
— Jack Kerouac
I'm not going to lie. I've done the 'Twisted Bliss' off of Braun Strowman's shoulders before, but that's not nothing to be on top of an Elimination Chamber pod.
— Alexa Bliss
If you believe, unbelievable things can sometimes be possible.
— Tim Tebow
If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
— Harry S. Truman