Quotes about Determination

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

I believe that, for the most part, we don't succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.

Credo quia impossibile

In the free world, it is customary during a strike for men to picket the entrance to a factory. They often use violence to prevent from entering any workers who choose not to join their actions. Likewise we Christians must decide to boycott hell, picketing the entrance with determination.

My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.

Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best.

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance" (1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT). It is love — not fear, not guilt, and not peer pressure — that causes us to keep going when we feel like giving up.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

If I can with confidence say That still for another day, Or even another year, I will be there for you, my dear, It will be because, though small As measured against the All, I have been so instinctively thorough About my crevice and burrow.

But no, I was out for stars; I would not come in. I meant not even if asked; And I hadn't been.

The best way out is always through