Top 1200 Courage And Determination Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.

In many cases, the joy and honor of having a home has lifted people into a spirit of determination to try and achieve a better life for themselves and their families.

The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.

Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: independence or death!

For me, hard work and determination got me in the Hall of Fame.

My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.

I just had this drive, this determination to do something different and to take my career in a different direction.

You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

Endurance cannot be produced by determination alone; endurance is a product of physical exercise.

Determination is frequently found in failure, but it is never found in defeat.

Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.

My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.

Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.

How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.

I can't control the naysayers. I can control my attitude and work ethic and determination and that's what I'm focused on now.

During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.

The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.

A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

We have given up office, but not our responsibility to serve the nation. We have lost an election, but not our determination.

Determination. You have to be willing to put in the extra time and the extra practice to be the best.

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

The only difference between the easy goals and the tough goals is your determination.

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.

Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

To become a superstar, it's not only the voice. You have to have all these things: talent, determination, be ready to work, ready to understand.