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No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
— Alice Sebold, Lucky
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
— Abraham Lincoln
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
— Cathy Hopkins
Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.
— Paul Graham
A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.
— Michael Crichton, Next
Vengeance is one of life's great motivators.
— K.S. Brooks, Lust for Danger
There are moments of frustration in life. You must build good relations to support you in these moments. You must also learn to encourage yourself and decide to stay determined in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.
— Lora Leigh, Broken Wings
A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well.God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.
— Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
It seems kind of light for a dozen books. I think it's probably that unnatural number of Jason Statham DVDs you ordered."He has to have filmed a nude scene at some point in his career. I don't care how many shoot-'em-up action movies I have to watch, I will find it," I said solemnly. "Oh, yes, I will find it.
— Molly Harper
I am the gatekeeper of my own destiny and I will have my glory days in the hot sun
— Nacho LIbre
Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.
— Kahlil Gibran
Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Don't let anything get in your way.
— Heidi Schulz, The Pirate Code
He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be.
— Solange nicole
I am burning. I have to live, I have to sing, I want to transform myself into a thousand different characters and carry their life with me onto the stage where it's so bright and so dark at the same time, just knowing there are three thousand people out there longing to be swept away by the passion that's about to flood out from scarlet curtains, to this I consecrate my body and my soul, I can give no more than all of myself, I feel my heart is a throbbing engine and my voice is the valve, like a wailing train, it has to sing or blow up, there's too much fuel, too much fire, and what am I to do with this voice if I can't let it out, it's not just singing. I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me. I am in love. But not with a person. I am passionately in love with my life.
— Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on
— Joseph Needham
being stubborn is not a bad thing, it shows determination.
— Joshua Wright
I still watch her now, like I always did, and she watches me, her brown eyes looking out from a wolf's face. This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one.I won't let this be my last good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper cranes of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.
— Darren Shan, The Thin Executioner
Steam Lodge Song of the Sun Dance Ceremony:A voice, I will send. Hear me! The land All over, A voice I am sending! Hear me! I will live! 
— Frances Densmore, American Indians and Their Music
The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her.
— Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle
As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I’ve learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
seven times down, eight times up
— Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior
Don't stop til you get to the top. And then break out the sledge hammer and keep on going
— Juliet C. Obodo
The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle, but she pushed on as fast as she could.
— Erin Bow, Plain Kate
The determination that is his biggest strength . . . is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll just keep shoving, not realizing a step back, a one-night pause, could let some obstacle move out of the way and smooth his path.
— Lin Pardey, Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife
Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.
— Steven Brown
Being exhausted, yet keeping up the pursuit.' (Judges 8:4) Even after what I had said of wanting out, even after that humiliation, the physical exhaustion, the deep despair I felt, those words were my new marching orders. The next morning, I swung my rucksack over my shoulders and was off again.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get back what was taken from her.
— Mo Daviau, Every Anxious Wave
Persistence and determination are always rewarded.
— Christine Rice
My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.
— Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and that no Case can be so low, so despicable, or so empty of Prospect, but that an unwearied Industry will go a great way to deliver us from it, will in time raise the meanest Creature to appear again in the World, and give him a new Case for his Life.
— Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenacity don’t just give up. When you are at the battlefield, you do all things with a different energy!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment, tell. Perhaps it was that there was nothing she would not do, and there were so many things these people would rather die than do. Perhaps it was that they were without hope but still smiling at life, bowing gracefully and passing it by. And this Scarlett could not do. She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile. Of the sweetness and courage and unyielding pride of her friends, Scarlett saw nothing. She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.
— David Shore
I didn't give up in the nine months it took to get here, so I'm sure as hell not going to give up now!
— Anthony T. Hincks
This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Impossible is Always Possible
— Robert Stephen
You're like Lady MacBeth without the murder.""Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.
— John Corey Whaley, Highly Illogical Behavior
They will call you crazy once you stop living someone else’s dream and start living your own.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith and my principles.
— John Bunyan
Do whatever you have determined to do.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Determination is as common among men who are dull and foolish as it is among those who are brilliant intellects.
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
The sun does not rise when you need it most. You rise instead.
— Melissa  Jennings, Afterlife
Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.
— Mike Bartlett, King Charles III
You are right, I do fall down a lot. But that wouldn’t be true if I never stood back up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Always put a "yet" after the things you have not accomplished.
— Hopal Green
Having accessible options restricts us from utilizing what we have exhaustively
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
NEVER give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
— Unknown
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
It was time to take action, to change her own story, to take life into her own hands.
— Lisa Berne, You May Kiss the Bride
Starting something can be easy, it is finishing it that is the highest hurdle.
— Isabella Poretsis
He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.
— Nancy Milford, Zelda
How well you cross a storm of life determines your testimony about it
— Sunday Adelaja
Realizing your virtues is based on your determination
— Sunday Adelaja
When your pain gets tough, your game needs to get rough.
— Janna Cachola
Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
For as long as space remains,For as long as sentient beings remain,Until then may I too remainTo dispel the miseries of the world.
— Acharya Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life
Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it." -- McMurphy
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Nothing boosts confidence quite like simulating a disaster, engaging with it fully, both physically and intellectually, and realising you have the ability to work the problem.
— Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
You’re sure this is what you want?” I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells“I’m sure”“Then I’ll find a way
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
The path to success isn't measured in miles, it's measured in inches..
— Cornelius  Moore, The Club
I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.
— Stephen King, Joyland
Problem can get bigger or smaller, it all depends on how we view it individually.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
I CAN and I WILL.
— Farshad Asl
Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I've always been like that
—  I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
When you consider the many pressures that couples face today, only an iron-clad determination will hold them together for a lifetime. Those who go into marriage with a mushy commitment are likely to wobble and fall apart when the hard times come. And as we all know, hard times will come.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The will is your most important asset. If you lose it, you have lost everything.
— Dele Ayo Bankole
Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.
— Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing
It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum! We made it to Hollywood, time to give these aliens the golden boot!" - Angel from the Thousand Years War
— Angel Ramon Medina, The Thousand Years War
The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
There is no excuse for failure when you gave up
— Shaun Mitchell
Like words written in the sand taken away by wavesThousands of years of culture discovered in lost cavesClimbing to a mountain at it's highest peakOut of no where strength when thought down and weak
— Justin Bienvenue, Like A Box Of Chocolates
He saw Hercules in the movie theater time after time, hour after hour, examining Park, judging him, admiring him, and, ultimately, promising himself that one day he, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then thirteen years old and poor as he was, would be like him, would even surpass Reg Park.
— Wendy Leigh, Arnold: an unauthorized biography
Christine taught her that the world you inherited didn’t have to be the world you left behind. Nothing was pre-determined. Not even No Man’s Land.
— Geonn Cannon, Riley Parra Season One
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great man and little man.- Thomas Fuller
— Bryan Curtis, Classic Wisdom for the Good Life
Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.
— Anthony Liccione
We have inexhaustible resources to achieve the goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be strong to stand alone.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only work for success is hard work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Self confident is best formula to success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Many opportunities are missed, since we fail to give it a try.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never confuse determination with arrogance. Arrogance will look down on you, determination will run over you.
— Grant McLachlan
Follow your dreams with determination and conviction until they become true.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
The determination of your own destiny is a choice that is yours alone to make.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than death—the fear of not reaching the top.
— Mike Mullane, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
With strong will, you can soar high on eagle’s wings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When I were first learning to shoot a rifle, Pa told me that nearly every battle people face is in their heads. If you think you can't do something, you won't. If you believe you can, it's only a matter of time before you will.
— Erin Bowman, Vengeance Road
Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel uncomfortable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Today is the anniversary of my husband’s death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
When failure is hard to take, pain becomes unbearable and you don’t see any way out. Hang on there, its darkest hour that indicates the advent of light.
— Evan  Smith
Are you willing to work for what you want?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can break through every barrier with persistent effort.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The magic of achievement is persistent endurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When righteous desires back up your motivation, you'll find that your inner gas tank will always have fuel to spare. Brick walls cannot stand in your way, detours cannot get you off track, and road construction will not make you turn around and head back. Your strength will surprise you, and whatever it is that your heart desires will eventually be accomplished.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
It hard to stop the person determined to press onwards.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
They are girls to whom things happen, and they take it hard. But I bear myself as more than a silly girl. I am the daughter of a water goddess. I am a woman with water in her veins and power in her breeding. I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won’t walk back.
— Philippa Gregory, The White Queen
Run the race of life with all endurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
..determination is the most important quality in a founder, open-mindedness and willingness to change your idea are key, and all startups face rejection at first.
— Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
I don't know how well I can fight, or run, or judge, but when the blade comes, I swear on whatever they want me to swear on, I'll stop it, with my body if nothing else.
— Sebastien de Castell, Traitor's Blade
We already had three steps behind us."Hold on, Lia," I whispered. Hold on for me.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Heart of Betrayal
It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Perfection isn’t necessary for success, but determination is.
— Jeanette Coron
I am determined to do my very best.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I resolve to do my very best in everything.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.
— Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked
That’s the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall.
— Kevin J. Shay
I love you.I'll love you forever.But I have to do this.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
It's not only joy as an act of defiance
—  it’s business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Everyone has to start somewhere. If you let people bring you down now, you’ll never know how high you could climb. And you owe it to yourself to try.
— Michelle Madow, Diamonds are Forever
One must undertake everything with utter, fanatical determination. Or one will get nowhere.
— Timur Vermes, Er ist wieder da
Persistence separates those who want it more.
— Tony Curl
Like yeast, it’s impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one’s efforts grow and expand.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Delicate in every way but oneGod knows we like archaic kinds of funChance is the only game I play with, babyWe let our battles choose us.
— Lorde, Lorde - Pure Heroine Songbook
I don't have talent, I have tenacity.
— Henry Rollins
When I was younger, my mom loved to garden. But the flowers would never grow. She just kept trying.''I don't understand.''Because you can't.''What does this have to do with anything?'I don't fiddle with my fingers and there's no apology on the tip of my tongue when I say, 'I am my mother's son.
— Ellie Lieberman
Oscar leaned in, eyes wide. 'He's keeping me,' he whispered to the kitten.Pebble chirped. Oscar's eyes flicked to the books underneath his bed. They called out to him: Misfit. Orphan. Idiot.Oscar coughed and shifted his eyes back to Pebble. 'He thinks I can work the shop. ... He said he knew I could do it.'Wolf: He didn't see you work the shop. He doesn't know. Just wait until he hears.'He wants me to do the best I can.'Wolf: If only he knew how bad that was. He'll know soon.Oscar clenched his hands into fists and squeezed his eyes shut. ... 'I'm not going to disappoint him,' Oscar said. He repeated himself once more, in case the words themselves had any power. 'I'm not.
— Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
You have immense strength for every good work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The ocean, like life, always has movement. A sailboat with all its parts together, in its wholeness, can lead it's own way, cutting through challenging waves with strength, ease, purpose and determination, no matter the pull and push of the waves.
— Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
tonight i was taking down a man
— kierra cass
Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.
— Tom Althouse
Our potential is determined by God’s potential. His potential is unlimited
— Sunday Adelaja
People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.
— Simon S. Tam
Be patient, persistent and above all, believe.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
Without triers there would never be any successors
— Thomas Wright
Everything new requires determination and courage from a person.
— Sunday Adelaja
Without triers they would never be any successors
— Thomas Wright
The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same clouds.
— Suman Pokhrel
Should I ask everyone the question that should not have been asked? Or should I turning up to the sky be answering the question that’s not been asked?
— Suman Pokhrel
We are all given equal opportunity to learn new things. We just have to be determined and persistent.
— Val Irvin Mabayo
We were motivated by our mentors to go an extra mile.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Jessica Parker. You posses an exceptional gift of leadership. We honor your unwavering determination and your steadfast loyalty. You are a champion of justice and a true visionary guardian of the world.
— Kay Cassidy
Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.
— Elena Ferrante
Sometimes I find it difficult to determine whether or not I'm merely spinning my wheels or making progress. Nevertheless, I must keep moving on until I reach a destination. For I would much rather be in perpetual motion with the promise of reaching some place majestic beyond the horizon, rather than sitting idle alongside a dirt road watching time hurriedly pass me by.
— Terry A. O'Neal
Fight fire with fire.
— Richard Williams II
With adolescent Nietzscheanism, she already planned to escape on the world's reversals from the sense of suffocation that seemed to her to be eclipsing her family, her sisters, and mother. She, she told herself, would move brightly along high places and stop to trespass and admire, and if the fine was a heavy one—well, there was no good in saving up beforehand to pay it. Full of these presumptuous resolves, she promised herself that if, in the future, her soul should come starving and crying for bread it should eat the stone she might have to offer without complaint or remorse. Relentlessly she convinced herself that the only thing of any significance was to take what she wanted when she could. She did her best.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
When nothing is at stake, everything's a waste.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
Earnestly and persistently pursue your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Strong determination makes the distination shine.
— Kishore Bansal
FLETCHER: The truth is I don’t think people understand what it is I did at Shaffer. I wasn’t there to conduct. Any idiot can move his hands and keep people in tempo. No, it’s about pushing people beyond what’s expected of them. And I believe that is a necessity. Because without it you’re depriving the world of its next Armstrong. Its next Parker. Why did Charlie Parker become Charlie Parker, Andrew? ANDREW: Because Jo Jones threw a cymbal at him.FLETCHER: Exactly. Young kid, pretty good on the sax, goes up to play his solo in a cutting session, fucks up -- and Jones comes this close to slicing his head off for it. He’s laughed off-stage. Cries himself to sleep that night. But the next morning, what does he do? He practices. And practices and practices. With one goal in mind: that he never ever be laughed off-stage again. A year later he goes back to the Reno, and he plays the best motherfucking solo the world had ever heard. Now imagine if Jones had just patted young Charlie on the head and said “Good job.” Charlie would’ve said to himself, “Well, shit, I did do a good job,” and that’d be that. No Bird. Tragedy, right? Except that’s just what people today want. The Shaffer Conservatories of the world, they want sugar. You don’t even say “cutting session” anymore, do you? No, you say “jam session”. What the fuck kind of word is that? Jam session? It’s a cutting session, Andrew, this isn’t fucking Smucker’s. It’s about weeding out the best from the worst so that the worst become better than the best. I mean look around you. $25 drinks, mood lighting, a little shrimp cocktail to go with your Coltrane. And people wonder why jazz is dying. Take it from me, and every Starbucks jazz album only proves my point. There are no two words more harmful in the entire English language than “good job”.
— Damien Chazelle
Determination is the first step of ladder to show Efficiency.
— Kishore Bansal
Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat.
— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
She can be a whirlwind of tits and terror when she puts her mind to a purpose, can't she, sir?
— Christopher Moore, Fool
When I interviewed at Yale, the admissions committee asked me why they should let me into the program. I looked at them unblinking and said, 'Because I'm going to change the world some day. And I'm giving you the chance to say, We knew her when.
— Sarah Thebarge
Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action.
— Kishore Bansal
Determination is a treasure of positive energy and secret of success.
— Kishore Bansal
Don't put forth for tomorrow what you can do today.
— Richmond Akhigbe
Few find success without hard work and determination. Those who do have hardly gained anything for themselves that they deserve.
— Anonymous
When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for now man should take me alive.
— Harriet Tubman
There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.
— Julie Andrews Edwards
Don’t let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it’s hopeless.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
You have to be determined on your quest for the fulfilment you need, and while you struggle, living and searching, carry a determined face, heart and spirit more than your inner perseverance.When you're earnestly searching for a job or something valuable in thriving on this life, let determination be your mindset. Have that creativity, resourceful spirit, inquisitive behaviour and resilience matching your gut to succeed in your search.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
You try, you fail. You try, you fail. But only when you stop trying, do you really fail.-Madam Leota
— Madam Leota
Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
I thought a lot about what I wanted to say,” Ethan softly interrupted. “I wanted to be sure it would give you the strength and courage to win through today. I decided that all you need to know is all that anyone really needs to know—you are loved. I love you. Melanie loves you. We believe in you. Somewhere up there God’s watching. He’s surely watching you. If His eye watches a sparrow, you know He’s watching the first of His children to reach across the stars and take the history of our small corner with His message out to every race of the universe. I think He must be on the edge of his throne watching and thinking, ‘Finally! This moment has come.’ He loves you, Leo. You can be sure of that. If all you know in life is that you are loved, you can press through anything. You can bear anything. Don’t let them stop you.
— Tom Deaderick, Flightpack
How blindly the world reads a man's mien! That I wear a smile does not mean I am in my comfort zone. I am only telling my challenges that I can't be distracted from the beautiful ending of my story.
— Bayode Ojo
I’ve done some soul searching… Looked deep within myself, ya know? I've reached the conclusion that 'Fuck You!' is my spirit animal, and some mother fuckers are going to pay. You can help me or you can walk… but I’m in this. I’m in ‘til the end,” Wednesday said.
— Dennis Sharpe, Wednesday
Never allow the opinions and criticisms of people deter you in the pursuit of your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Determination and willingness can change the situation when we are distructed
— Kishore Bansal
There's no such word as genius, it just the combination of hard work and determination.
— Lyza Matociños
There's no such word as genius, it is just the combination of hard work and determination.
— Lyza Matociños
Some days drawing is a real struggle. Hopefully, using the exercises in this book, it will become easier and more and more relaxing. Until that happens you may have to just accept the difficulty and battle through it - that too is a useful process. Build up your determination to succeed!
— Cliff Wright, The Magic of Drawing: Bring Your Vision to Life on the Page
Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.
— Hadewijch
The Muse honors the working stiff.
— Steven Pressfield
If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.
— Zig Ziglar
The time to lead is now.
— Joelle Charbonneau, Graduation Day
Not sure how you can get them to him without looking like a crazy stalker chick," Micah says."You think I'm a crazy stalker chick?""You're using an ancient war manual to try to win back your boyfriend. I think you're a girl who will do whatever it takes to get what she wants," he says. "Hey, at least you're committed.
— Paula Stokes, The Art of Lainey
Who told you it was too late? And more importantly, why did you choose to believe them?
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Perseverance and audacity generally win.
— Madame Dorothée De Luzy
So, you’ve failed many times at many things. That’s okay! Learn, grow, and move forward. With the right attitude and mindset, you can learn a lot from failure. Pay attention and keep on striving! You’ve got this!
— Stephanie Lahart
The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it was strong enough to support the desperate plan she had undertaken she would soon find out.
— Elizabeth George Speare, Calico Captive
There was another thing bigger than the tiredness – and this was the strong crew purpose.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Out of ten people that desire a girl, five people are actually willing to do something to win her heart and from this five, one already has the girl while the other has to fight to win her heart.
— Winston Samuels
Difficulty is only a matter of the willingness to do.
— Winston Samuels
Staring at the can clock never influence the appointed time that God has ordained for your manifestation. Hold your peace, but don't shift focus.
— Bayode Ojo, Petals Around The Rose
If the crookies don't crumble, you don't try other pastries
— Bayode Ojo, Petals Around The Rose
The P's of life:Passion, Persistence, Perseverance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not let the fear of unknown deter you from trying.Keep trying until you succeed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work — and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Hard work, determination, and talent are key for any successful venture. But sometimes you need that fourth ingredient: dumb luck. Luck can never replace hard work and talent, but sometimes it can win out over both.
— Abby Rosmarin, I'm Just Here for the Free Scrutiny: One Model's Tale of Insanity and Inanity in the Wonderful World of Fashion
He shrugged. 'I know you're the type''Type?''The type that doesn't let things go
— Tim Weaver, Never Coming Back
Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope – that unshakable, golden belief that things can get better.
— Alexander Gordon Smith, Execution
Getting a Lady is easy, but keeping a Lady is clever.
— Pontius Joseph, A Gentleman with a C.SL:A young gentlemen's guide to dating & relationships
The grace and blessing of God is sufficient to carry us through the storms of life. With persistence and determination, victory awaits us at end of the journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Failures are part of life lessons.Keep trying no matter how many times you fail. You will one day succeed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Never let those who say it can't be done obstruct you from pursuing your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With consistent determination, commitment , persistent, handwork, and faith in God we can make our dreams come true.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Words of others, helps weave our feathers.
— Bmmite
Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.
— Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
A strong determined spirit is unstoppable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
True determination is betting on your solemn decision regardless of the gloomy realities surrounding the thing you resolved to pursue.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
He realized without being aware of it that he had had the possibility to know her, before – had he known her? – but now that had changed. The possibility was gone. Now no one would know her unless she herself willed it. And there was nothing quite like the will he sensed in her now.
— Amanda Coplin
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. -Tommy Lasorda
— Tommy La Sorda
Don't be discourage by your problems.Let your passion and dreams inspired you to keep moving forward.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Kill them with success, and bury them with a smile
— Keisha Keenleyside
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.
— John Grisham, The Rainmaker
If hope is a feeling that can defeat fear,then at that time I walked uphill through a bed of snow, my tracks were of joyful determination.
— Angelica Hopes
When things become insurmountable, some people quit, some keep goingfor no other reason than to continue. Because that’s all there is to do.
— Robert Redford
Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
And so, here at the end of days, you are as you’ve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit
— Matthew Woodring Stover, Caine's Law
A conquering force sustained the old folks and now centers us. Forming a collective of comeback saints, let us rally behind them and move forward. We’re called to a new awakening and application of what we’ve learned from those who’ve “looked over Jordan.
— Deborah L. Parker, For People of Strength, Soul, and Spirit: Seven Guidelines for Life & Career Success
Victory's contagious" -Lorde
— Jennifer Thompson
I’d like to sit there,” I said softly to the girl sitting in front of the other mirror. She scampered. I took over her abandoned make-up and painted my face. Red cheeks, to attract hungry vampyre glances. Black liquid eyeliner and mascara, to draw attention away from my bitter eyes. My silky-thin, raven hair, undone in waves over my bare shoulders. The magenta shade of apple gloss on my lips, to make them plump and inviting. Finally, a strapless golden dress that hugged my hips and not much lower. I stood up, feeling the cold air slide down the bare skin of my back like fingers, and panicked. I couldn’t wear something like this! Not without a cardigan! A light dress jacket, at least!I took a gulp of Amrit’s wine and detached myself from the fretting child in my head. Then I strode from the sleeping chambers.
— Heather Heffner, Year of the Tiger
We cannot leave, but that does not mean we will stay—stay in the same place in the same system that profits from recycling us at the bottom. We will disrupt it. Build our own space that will swallow bits and pieces of theirs. We were waiting for permission, waiting for the Darkness to acknowledge our worth, but we’ve always had the power to make it come to be.
— Heather Heffner, The Tribe of Ishmael
I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
Our stories are timeless and tested. They are about us, a people of tremendous strength.Our songs are full of love and life— and the ups and downs of both. They are soulful with the rhythms of a heart that is in sync with nature and wonderment. Our struggles are real and rugged. They beckon our memory to the highest callings of the spirit, to help us rejoice and to overcome.
— Deborah L. Parker, For People of Strength, Soul, and Spirit: Seven Guidelines for Life & Career Success
Somebody needs to be in charge! They may not always like what you’re doing, but press on!” My late uncle, CSM, US Army (Ret) Harris L. Parker, Airborne Ranger, aka Hardcore
— Deborah L. Parker, Hardcore Leadership: 11 Master Lessons from My Airborne Ranger Uncle's "Final Jump"
If you can't change it don't worry about it.
— David  Barrett
One’s own history can be the greatest educator
— Deborah L. Parker, Navigating Life's Roadways: Stories of Insight from My Odyssey and Inspiration for Your Journey
Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.
— John Flanagan, The Royal Ranger
I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome." "To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian]"I will find them," Reyna said.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
...nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.
— Peter Straub, Ghost Story by Straub,Peter. [1989] Paperback
A lot of people are capable, Neelkanth. What makes a capable person truly dangerous is his conviction.
— Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras
She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she can’t even imagine the next morning, but it is so wide and binding by the middle of the next day that she cannot even remember the terrible night. It is as if she gives birth every day.
— Amy Bloom, Away
Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it.
— Tim Fargo
The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about “who we are” in Christ and that God is in control.
— Michael Barbarulo
In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.
— Sharon Duerst
A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside."A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.
— Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth
I only need 1 thing: Everything" - Sengoku Nadeko
— NisiOisiN
I will either find a way, or make one.
— Hannibal
You may not have the greenest yard, but you can take the shit you're given and fertilize your grass into something beautiful!
— L.M. Fields
I don't think I can
—  I know i will.
Suddenly I felt that determination well up, which had helped me to accomplish things in the past, even when I was only six years old.
— Gisela Hausmann "Naked Determination 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear"
There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.
— Tom Clancy, Against All Enemies
Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that.
— Jo Nesbø, Flaggermusmannen
You can only kill disappointment with a new try.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Shaman
For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means I did something right. But because it proves how many wrongs I pushed through to get there.
— Cara Rosalie Olsen
I will not live the rest of my life in regret.
— Penny Chenery Secretariat
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.
— Joe Biden, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Your dreams will never come true through some kind of magic.They will become reality only through self confidence, determination, dedication and effort
— Mouloud Benzadi
Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.
— Ken Scott
Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck.
— Nora Roberts, Face the Fire
Having faith is like having an extra energy source. It allows you to keep moving forward when all logic tells you, you can't.
— Michael Rogers
A shadow passes over her face, but she shakes it off fast as she leans forward, her bright-blue hair swinging over her shoulder and clashing with her pumpkin-orange shirt. “You think you’re the only one who wants to bring back someone they love? Everyone loses someone. It’s inevitable. Everyone thinks they’re willing to give up everything to get that person back. There aren’t many who are actually capable of it.”My breath catches in my throat as my brain processes her words. Nowhere in that speech did she say what I wanted was impossible. She just said most people aren’t willing to make the necessary sacrifice.“I’ll do it. Anything. Whatever it takes.
— Erica Cameron, Doorways to Extra Time
In the face of adversity, beautiful things emerge
— Epiphana Lewis
You sorta lose the fear of failure when everyone thinks you already gave it your best shot and blew it.
— Brian Wood, DMZ, Vol. 2: Body of a Journalist
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
— Tommy Lasorda
Religion does not care about your purpose or determination
—  it just wants you to live like hell.
When the will is strong enough, it is astounding what one's mind can do.
— S.R. Ford, Mimgardr
I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done
— James Bond
If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions(...)if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life.#Page no.134
— Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.
— Orrin Woodward
Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
My Master had power and law on his side
—  I had a determined will. There is might in each.
You cannot go and warn him," Saeunn said sternly. "It is too late. You would never find him.""I know," said Renn without turning her head.To herself she added, But I've still got to try.
— Michelle Paver, Spirit Walker
Dad will come back,' said Charlie quietly.When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn't look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. 'You know, Charlie, I'm beginning to believe you,' she said. 'After what happened to Henry, I can believe almost anything.
— Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?
— Jocelyn  Murray, Corfe Castle
To Succeed You Must Read
— A.J. Briscoe
Making a decision takes a moment, living a decision takes a life-time.
— Sherif A. El-Mawardy
I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
As long as you stay determined, you will stay focused and you will succeed
— Carol Bell
Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to write regardless. I suppose it is similar to people who talk just to hear their own voice. I write simply to see my own thoughts in print.
— Andrew James Pritchard
The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
He came back full of life and hope and determination.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.
— Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe
I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice