Quotes about Determination

A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

So live real good, and get beat up real bad. Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. That's how this thing seems to work.

Rosa Parks commented, "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person.