Quotes about Determination
If he had loved her he would have pursued her.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.
- Elisabeth Elliot
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
- Alice Walker
We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until.
- Alistair Begg
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Of course I don't have a big serve. I have other weapons. That's why tennis is a nice sport.
- David Goffin
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
- Lady Gaga
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
- Shirley Chisholm
Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.
- Joseph Wirthlin
As a 16-year-old, I was 5-foot-5 and maybe 145 pounds. It was hard to believe a guy like that was going to make it to the big leagues.
- Jose Altuve
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
- Benjamin Disraeli