#determination

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower. ↗

— Robert McKee

#capability #decisions #determination #life #willpower

Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline. ↗

— Paul Graham

#discipline

A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed. ↗

— Solange nicole

#determination #love #mother-s-love #motherhood #solange

Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words......be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#determination #eena #endurance #patience #persistance

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#life-experience #self-determination #experience

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #ideal-woman

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. ↗

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

#determination #inspiration #motivation #negativity #self-confidence

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

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#identity #individuality #inspirational #life #self-determination

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