Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.
We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.
With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.
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 of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.
Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue. But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.
I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.
I think I really believed my childish thoughts back then. Using the determination of the poor, the childish thought that I can do it if I tried with all my might. But in reality. . . I never did get to defeat him. No. I couldn't beat him.
So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.
In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.