567 quotes found
“The spirit of determination is the soul set on fire.”
“Don't be discouraged if people don't see your vision, your harvest. All they see from their perspective is that you're watering a whole lot of dirt. They don't SEE what seeds you've been planting w...”
“Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!”
“It is not his body which makes a man strong, but his spirit. Nothing on the outside, but only that which comes from within.”
“Trying is something we do when we think we can’t do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will. -- Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings a...”
“It wouldn’t be very ladylike to punch a guy in the balls, but it isn’t very manlike to harass a woman because she has different parts and a sweet face.”
“What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea ...”
“As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie,...”
“It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.”
“Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it’s about working to live right.”
“If you lose one battle, don’t give up. Get up again, you have a war to win.”
“The road from ‘here’ to ‘there’ is a map yet to be written with the pen I hold in my hand.”
“How do they do it?” He stopped at her side, his eyes on the jugglers. It seemed impossible that not one ball fell to the ground.“Determination.” She elbowed him playfully. “And being willing to mak...”
“Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this.”
“Don’t give up on yourself. Be strong!”
“Humankind’s amazing grace is the ability to choose right from wrong, and assume personal responsibility for our conduct. With the judicious exercise of composure and appliance of self-discipline, w...”
“But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.”
“Raging fires grow from the tiniest spark; it is the same principle at work in life. As long as there's a spark, tend to your fire. Never give up.”
“Today is a BRAND NEW day—a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.”
“Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?”
