#determination

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. ↗

— Barack Obama

#helping-others #hope #initiative #just-do-it #proactivity

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws. ↗

— George Gillespie

#determination #god #human #laws #left

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win. ↗

— Patty Berg

#concentration #dedication #desire #determination #does

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ↗

— Dan Gable

#alloy #called #determination #gold #gold medals

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#american people #courage #determination #patience #people

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. ↗

— James Larkin

#best #class #co-operative #commonwealth #could

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#bring #self-determination #socialism #their

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? ↗

— Pierre Loti

#break #could #determination #duty #fast