determination

What happens to us are tiny matters compared to us response to any situation.

Challenges make us grow in faith, in spirit and in strength.

It is a blessing to experience hardship. Not because we suffer, but because we learn to endure.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?

Destiny is defined by your choices, decisions, and determination.

If you possess a gentle spirit will move mountains.

(...) pick up your axe, start at the rootsdon't miss the trunk, never forget:to end life truly and finallystart at the roots or end there.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;In __lood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,_ his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in __owever Long and Hard the Road_ BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983

Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That__ only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds _ as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history.

At forty two years, Sona Kilroy stood tall and strapping, a powerful figure. Rising to the rank of Admiral in the Corsair fleet was no easy feat. It took intelligence, talent, determination, resilience, creative thinking, brute force, and sheer cunning to achieve _ and perhaps also a large slice of luck.

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strength en the soul.

I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

The spirit of determination is the soul set on fire.