Quotes about Determination

I choose not to remain at good today, but rather to answer the call to greatness.

What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.

You then went to the vicarage, waited outside it for some time, and finally returned to your cottage." "How do you know that?" "I followed you." "I saw no one." "That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination.

You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.