Determination Quotes

I'm trying to ruin it! Will had bellowed back. So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

~ Lois Lowry

Our stories are timeless and tested. They are about us, a people of tremendous strength.Our songs are full of love and life— and the ups and downs of both. They are soulful with the rhythms of a heart that is in sync with nature and wonderment. Our struggles are real and rugged. They beckon our memory to the highest callings of the spirit, to help us rejoice and to overcome.

~ Deborah L. Parker

Somebody needs to be in charge! They may not always like what you’re doing, but press on!” My late uncle, CSM, US Army (Ret) Harris L. Parker, Airborne Ranger, aka Hardcore

~ Deborah L. Parker

If you can't change it don't worry about it.

~ David Barrett

One’s own history can be the greatest educator

~ Deborah L. Parker

...nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

~ Peter Straub

A lot of people are capable, Neelkanth. What makes a capable person truly dangerous is his conviction.

~ Amish Tripathi

She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it is so wide and binding by the middle of the next day that she cannot even remember the terrible night. It is as if she gives birth every day.

~ Amy Bloom

Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it.

~ Tim Fargo

The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about “who we are” in Christ and that God is in control.

~ Michael Barbarulo

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

~ Sharon Duerst

A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside.A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.

~ Susan Fraser King

I only need 1 thing: Everything - Sengoku Nadeko

~ Nisioisin

I will either find a way, or make one.

~ Hannibal

You may not have the greenest yard, but you can take the shit you're given and fertilize your grass into something beautiful!

~ L.m. Fields

I don't think I can, I know i will.

~ Vikrmn

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

~ Tom Clancy

Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that.

~ Jo Nesbø

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means I did something right. But because it proves how many wrongs I pushed through to get there.

~ Cara Rosalie Olsen

I will not live the rest of my life in regret.

~ Penny Chenery Secretariat

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.

~ Joe Biden

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

~ Ken Scott

Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck.

~ Nora Roberts

Having faith is like having an extra energy source. It allows you to keep moving forward when all logic tells you, you can't.

~ Michael Rogers

A shadow passes over her face, but she shakes it off fast as she leans forward, her bright-blue hair swinging over her shoulder and clashing with her pumpkin-orange shirt. “You think you’re the only one who wants to bring back someone they love? Everyone loses someone. It’s inevitable. Everyone thinks they’re willing to give up everything to get that person back. There aren’t many who are actually capable of it.”My breath catches in my throat as my brain processes her words. Nowhere in that speech did she say what I wanted was impossible. She just said most people aren’t willing to make the necessary sacrifice.“I’ll do it. Anything. Whatever it takes.

~ Erica Cameron

In the face of adversity, beautiful things emerge

~ Epiphana Lewis

You sorta lose the fear of failure when everyone thinks you already gave it your best shot and blew it.

~ Brian Wood

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.

~ Tommy Lasorda

Religion does not care about your purpose or determination, it just wants you to live like hell.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do.

~ S.r. Ford

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

~ James Bond

If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions(...)if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life.#Page no.134

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.

~ Orrin Woodward

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

My Master had power and law on his side, I had a determined will. There is might in each.

~ Harriet Jacobs

Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly.When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. 'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.

~ Jenny Nimmo

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

~ Jocelyn Murray