Quotes about Determination

John Bunyan once said: "You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

It's fear that makes an act courageous.

We determine how much we will allow something to make us unhappy. That we can determine our emotional response to events is hard for many people to acknowledge. Most people think that events make them unhappy, that their happiness level is essentially dictated by what happens to them. But this is untrue.

First, instead of allowing the world's evil to prevent me from being happy—which would only give evil another victory—I have chosen to fight it to the best of my abilities.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do!

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.

Any time that you're criticised, it drives you on, and you try to prove people wrong.

The word 'empower' is something that kept coming up in my heart.

I like to enforce myself in the run game. It's something I have control over.

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

Martin Luther claimed that he "never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.

God wants to show such people how strong He really is (2 Chronicles 16:9). But not all who aspire to leadership are willing to pay such a high personal price.