Determination Quotes

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C. JoyBell C.
“I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else's. Everyone has their own river, and you don't need to swim,float,sail on their's, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I don't believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.”
C. JoyBell C.

Alice Sebold
“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
Alice Sebold, Lucky

Chad Boudreaux
“While waiting for her accomplice to gather his equipment, Hensley couldn’t help but think ahead to her next mission. She hadn’t told him. It wasn’t a mission for which she’d volunteered, nor a mission about which she knew any details.”
Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

Chad Boudreaux
“He had always been so careful, never revealed his true identity. But somehow, they’d fingered him, and his life had changed forever—for the worst. He couldn’t help but think that some­one in the Central Intelligence Agency had turned on him. One of his own.”
Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

“I prayed that our growth would be as strong and determined as the seeds of coconut palms, boldly reaching skyward toward the sun diligently boring deeper into the earth to secure a firm foundation for the beautiful, durable, fruit-bearing trees they would become. For me, Mhonda was the place to continue the growth of the still young but strong roots of my tree planted in Kifungilo. This was my life now, the life I’d prayed for, the life that would provide me with an education and would open doors. I wanted this life very much. I told my wavering spirit to bear with me because, just like the coconut palm, I would sway and bend and bruise, but I would survive. I would have to become the tree in the African saying: ‘The tree that bends with the wind does not break.”
Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

Maxwell Maltz
“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”
Maxwell Maltz, The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

Martin Luther King Jr.
“Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."

--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris”
Martin Luther King Jr.

“I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.”
Whitney M. Young Jr.

Liza M. Wiemer
“Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.”
Liza Wiemer

Jackson Burnett
“A thousand years from now nobody is
going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is
right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.”
Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends

William Blake
“And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green & pleasant Land.”
William Blake, Milton: A Poem

Habeeb Akande
“Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.”
Habeeb Akande

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!”
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Irvine Welsh
“I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.”
Irvine Welsh, Filth

“In their hearts, they know that we are all created equal in the eyes of God and the universe. Whoever thinks otherwise will never be happy.”
Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“Discovering dance and its power to heal my soul played a key role in my survival.”
Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

T.F. Hodge
“In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with.”
T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“In your heart, you will always be African, but in America you are a Black American. It is possible and desirable to be both.”
Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

Ahmad Ardalan
“I believe in Love, and I know love conquers all.”
Ahmad Ardalan, The Gardener of Baghdad

“To them I was first a Black, then a Black from another country, and then a person.”
Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

Edgar A. Guest
Results and Roses

The man who wants a garden fair,
or small or very big,
With flowers growing here and there,
Must bend his back and dig.

The things are mighty few on earth
That wishes can attain.
Whate'er we want of any worth
We've got to work to gain.

It matters not what goal you seek,
It's secret here reposes:
You've got to dig from week to week
To get Results or Roses.”
Edgar A. Guest

N.K. Jemisin
“Determination could easily become obsession.”
N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Mouloud Benzadi
“Your dreams will never come true through some kind of magic.
They will become reality only through self confidence, determination, dedication and effort”
Mouloud Benzadi

Man Ray
“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”
Man Ray

“Standing up for your human rights is what you must always do.”
Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter