Determination Quotes - Page 2

Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.

Been living on this earth for so long now and still don't know what a happy life feels like. I'm ready for a change.

If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs.

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.

Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.

The best of your life could be the rest of your life, if you decide it will be so.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
-as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS