#termination

Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#fate #life #predetermination #imagination

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#enough #establishes #failure #only #our

Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#control #determination #hate #influence #permission

To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#am #continued #crazy #determination #does

But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#childress #contract #determination #go #good

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#self-determination #food

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#actions #always #choice #conquest #determination

What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one. ↗

— Criss Jami

#acceptance #boldness #determination #determine #ego