Quotes about Determination

Fear is a poor chisel with which to carve out tomorrow.

When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act. I am a person of action.

Outside influences are not responsible for where you are mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, or financially. You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.

We can't do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once!

So to make sure we don't get off on that foot, courage is resistance to fear or mastery of it, but it is not the absence of fear.

THE FIRST DECISION FOR SUCCESS: The buck stops here.

Our lives may be swayed by gales of adversity, we may be drowning in the floodwaters of helplessness, but with strong hope we continue the search to find a way when all evidence shouts, 'Quit.

Fear no longer has a place in my life. For too long, fear has outweighed my desire to make things better for my family. Never again! I have exposed fear as a vapor, an impostor that never had any power over me in the first place! I do not fear opinion, gossip, or the idle chatter of monkeys, for all are the same to me. I do not fear failure, for in my life, failure is a myth. Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

Never give in to a feeling of despair, fear, or defeat. Lead your negative emotion. Never allow those emotions to lead you. Always lead them by quickly moving in the opposite direction those emotions insist you should go!

THE FOURTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS: I have a decided heart.

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. I am an eagle. It is my destiny to fly.