#determination

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

It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and jeering once and for all? Couldn't we live without them? Couldn't we earn our living and manage our affairs without help from them? Come on, let's wake up, and claim back our freedom, and the honour and dignity that they have usurped from us for so long. Do you think that if we really put our minds to it, we would be lacking the courage to defend ourselves, the strength to fend for ourselves, or the talents to earn our own living? Let's take our courage into our hands and do it, and then we can leave it up to them to mend their ways as much as they can: we shan't really care what the outcome is, just as long as we are no longer subjugated to them. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#courage #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

He came back full of life and hope and determination. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#hope #life

It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win. ↗

— Stacey Kade

#ariane #determination #human #life-form #win

[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

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

— Og Mandino

#determination #enough #failure #me #never

The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country! ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#come #country #determination #different #like

They say love will find a way. I know determination will. ↗

— Ronnie Milsap

#find #i #know #love #say

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#bursting #churchill #could #determination #devious

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#depends #determination #economic #employment #future