Quotes about Determination
Short prayers with long legs travel far.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
- Harriet Tubman
Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.
- Leymah Gbowee
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
- Oprah Winfrey
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
- Kamala Harris
I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.
- Michael Jordan
I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.
- Ayesha Curry
From a mental standpoint, you can't play this game unless you mentally are clocked in and that's, 'I'm willing to do everything to my body, my mind to put myself so that I can win.'
- Cris Carter
I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.
- Barack Obama
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
- Watchman Nee