Determination To Succeed Quotes - Page 2

• A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

  William Feather

  Perseverance, Determination, Way

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• Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Determination, Rocks

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• The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Determination, Learning

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• So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Determination, Succeed, Dice

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• I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Determination, Struggle, Past

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• Because youve done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

  Rob James-Collier

  Determination, Jobs, Giving

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• He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

  Rick Riordan

  Determination, Home, Fighting

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• There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.

  Sophy Burnham

  Determination, Writing, Successful

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.51, Penguin

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• Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.

  George Steinbrenner

  Determination, Intelligent, Men

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• 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.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Determination, Believe, Teaching

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• America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Country, Determination

  Gerald R. Ford's address to the state conference of the Order of DeMolay in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 7, 1968.

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