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Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.
Sep 18, 2025
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.
There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.
Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.
Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.
If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this life you wanna go.
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.
The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march forth with courage and determination, drawing strength from our common plight and our brotherhood [and sisterhood]. In time we shall be in a position to bestow upon South Africa the greatest gift possible--a more human face
As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty can come at any time. You stand ready to put your lives on hold and answer that call, ... And you did so because you love your state and your country. America appreciates your courageous decision to serve. Together with your comrades in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Reserves, you are showing that patriotism is alive and well in Idaho and throughout the United States.
The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of books are only a means to this end. We develop power and courage and determination and we go out to achieve Truth, Wisdom and Justice. If we do not come to this, the cost of schooling is wasted.
We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
The best revenge is the massive success.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.