Quotes about Determination

Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. But you can't make both.

What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

The question is: Will you choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?

Clearly determine your values, because when your values are clear, your decisions are easier.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.

I'm all of those things that I was brought up to really value: honesty, stick with it, don't quit, don't cut and run, stay in there. When you think things might fall apart, believe that you have enough for victory. That's the stuff I have in me.

That's the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.

Well, you know how a river moves a mountain." The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. "Stone by stone," she finished.

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.

Ultimately, it's not so much what life deals you as what you choose to own that matters, a spiritually searching law clerk had once said to