#deter

Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#determination #humor #love #love

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#doubt #sex #women #love

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #freedom #happiness #heaven #husbands

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#conscience #courtship #dignity #empowerment #feminism

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream. ↗

— Chris Brown

#artist #basically #concerned #determination #dream

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#determination #hard-work #inspirational #patience #persistence

There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#impossibility #inspirational #motivational #possibility #inspirational

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#ambition #dedication #desire #determination #drive

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#adversity #determination #inspirational #inspirational