Quotes about Determination

Our lives may be swayed by gales of adversity, we may be drowning in the floodwaters of helplessness, but with strong hope we continue the search to find a way when all evidence shouts, 'Quit.

Fear no longer has a place in my life. For too long, fear has outweighed my desire to make things better for my family. Never again! I have exposed fear as a vapor, an impostor that never had any power over me in the first place! I do not fear opinion, gossip, or the idle chatter of monkeys, for all are the same to me. I do not fear failure, for in my life, failure is a myth. Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

Never give in to a feeling of despair, fear, or defeat. Lead your negative emotion. Never allow those emotions to lead you. Always lead them by quickly moving in the opposite direction those emotions insist you should go!

THE FOURTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS: I have a decided heart.

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. I am an eagle. It is my destiny to fly.

THE SEVENTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS: I will persist without exception.

In times of adversity, you don't have a problem to deal with; you have a choice to make.

I have faith in my future. I do not look left or right. I look forward. I can only persist.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already.

One gets to the place one wants to be the same way one got to the place one didn't want to be—by putting one foot in front of the other and moving in a specific direction.