Quotes about Determination

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

All great men are delusional. How else could they be crazy enough to think they could change the world?

On n'est pas courageux si on ne connaît pas la peur.

the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

I believe that, for the most part, we don't succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.

Credo quia impossibile

In the free world, it is customary during a strike for men to picket the entrance to a factory. They often use violence to prevent from entering any workers who choose not to join their actions. Likewise we Christians must decide to boycott hell, picketing the entrance with determination.

My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.

Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best.

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance" (1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT). It is love — not fear, not guilt, and not peer pressure — that causes us to keep going when we feel like giving up.