Inspirational Determination Quotes to Keep You Focused - page 62

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like \'What is my purpose in life?\' very quickly lacked both.
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.
 Lloyd D. Newell
You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.
 Laz Alonso
Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you
Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.
The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished.
 Odysseas Elytis
No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.
 James A. Murphy III
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
 Morihei Ueshiba
The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
 Sandra Day O'Connor
Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.
 T. D. Jakes
Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.
 Momofuku Ando
Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.
 Elvis Presley
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
 Jada Pinkett Smith
Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.
I ignore my fear, he says. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist. I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.
I ignore my fear, he says. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist. I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.
If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.
 David Eagleman