Quotes about Determination
Passion makes one persuasive.
— Fred Craddock
How many times in her life had she been faced with the same Sisyphean task?
— Brandilyn Collins
Winston Churchill said it well: "Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
— Brennan Manning
To choose joy does not mean to choose happy feelings or an artificial atmosphere of hilarity. But it does mean the determination to let whatever takes place bring us one step closer to the God of life.
— Henri Nouwen
Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled life are far from easy to overcome.
— Henri Nouwen
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Nothing can be more useful to a man than the determination not to be hurried.
— Henry David Thoreau
What a different aspect will courage put upon the face of things!
— Henry David Thoreau
Moses had to re-check Gods' directions constantly. He obeyed God, spoke to Pharaoh, and everything went wrong, but Moses didn't quit. He went back to the Lord to clarify what was happening.
— Henry Blackaby
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. Philippians 3:13
— Henry Blackaby
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
— Herman Melville
For it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown
— Herman Melville