#determination

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#initiative #motivation #motivational

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right ↗

— Jack Canfield

#motivational #motivational

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired. ↗

— Robert Strauss

#perseverance #success #success

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 ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#angels #civil-war #democracy #destiny #determination

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#determination #excuses #failure #perserverance #success

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it. ↗

— Homer Hickam

#curiosity #determination #homer-hickam #learning #october-sky

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt. ↗

— Mike Norton

#determination #fall #kindle #kindlehighlight #learn

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. ↗

— Morton Hunt

#any #break #break up #determination #failure

... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you? ↗

— Carrie Jones

#self-determination #self-determination

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true. ↗

— Robert Browning

#self-determination #self-determination