#termination

Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#determination #humor #love #love

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#doubt #sex #women #love

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#ambition #dedication #desire #determination #drive

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#adversity #determination #inspirational #inspirational

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each. ↗

— Harriet Jacobs

#inspirational #power #inspirational

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#independence #individuality #inspirational #self-assurance #self-awareness

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you? ↗

— Henry Ford

#determination #inspirational #inspirational

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will ↗