Quotes about Determination
TODAY I WANT TO TELL THE CITY OF SELMA, TODAY I WANT TO SAY TO THE STATE OF ALABAMA, TODAY I WANT TO SAY TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA AND THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, THAT WE ARE NOT ABOUT TO TURN AROUND.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Se não puder voar, corra. Se não puder correr, ande. Se não puder andar, rasteje; mas continue em frente de qualquer jeito.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
determination, enough courage and faith to meet the difficulties as they developed. When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord, help me to accept my tools. However dull they are, help me to accept them. And then Lord, after I have accepted my tools, then help me to set out and do what I can do with my tools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A solitary cyclist was coming towards us. His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. He was flying like a racer.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
A dead fish can float with the stream, but it takes a man to swim against it. What
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The true emblem of causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, who, clamping his legs around his horse as it sinks in the water, pulls his pigtail up over his head and raises himself and the horse into the heights; under this emblem, put: causa sui.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot determine what he wills.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...
- Audre Lorde
You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.
- Audre Lorde