#termination

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dedication #determination #drive #endurance #life

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#common #determination #different #future #i

Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both. Nevertheless, there have been women ... who had the choice, and chose the job and made a success of it. And there have been and are many men who have sacrificed their careers for women ... When it comes to a choice, then every man or woman has to choose as an individual human being, and, like a human being, take the consequences. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#choice #clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#book #comes #determination #history #inevitably

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. ↗

— Henry Knox

#civil war #done #failure #horror #involved

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

Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous.' His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.' Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life. ↗

— Bryce Courtenay

#self-determination #life

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#empowerment #feminism #gender #history #independence

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#self-determination #being

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. ↗

— Og Mandino

#determination #enough #failure #me #never