Quotes about Determination
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.
— Washington Irving
You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
— Wayne Gretzky
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
— Dante Alighieri
From the furnace of manifest presence, born of unashamed adoration and unapologetic preaching, comes an army of worshippers unafraid in their witness, determined to see others discover what they have found in the LORD.
— James MacDonald
The unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision.
— James MacDonald
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
— Dorothy Sayers
You had decided to take the action, whatever it was." "Yes." "Yes. It involved perhaps a period of inaction." "Of comparative inaction—yes." "Of suspense, shall we say?" "Yes—of suspense, certainly." "Possibly
— Dorothy Sayers
If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—all other interests, your own and other people's.
— Dorothy Sayers
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
— Aesop
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
— Aesop
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
— Golda Meir
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
— Soren Kierkegaard