Quotes about Determination
Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.
— John Eldredge
The first line grabs me by the throat. "Therefore we do not lose heart." Somebody knows how not to lose heart? I'm all ears. For we are losing heart. All of us. Daily. It is the single most unifying quality shared by the human race on the planet at this time. We are losing—or we have already lost—heart.
— John Eldredge
This is the time for a young man to stop saying, "Why is life so hard?" He takes the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, take it on.
— John Eldredge
A boy wants to attack something—and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. He wants to whack it into kingdom come.
— John Eldredge
That's the key word—engage. Choose to engage and your weary warrior wakes up.
— John Eldredge
Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.
— John Eldredge
Be men of courage; be strong. —1 CORINTHIANS 16:13 NIV
— John Eldredge
Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!
— John F. Kennedy
If not us, who? If not now, when?
— John F. Kennedy
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. [Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']
— John F. Kennedy
Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.
— John F. Kennedy
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!
— John F. Kennedy