Determination Quotes

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell

Motivational, Dream, Military

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When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 03, 2014

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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Gail Devers

Motivational, Faith, Sports

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

Life, Want, Way

Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

Inspirational, Life, Strength

Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Football, Inspirational Sports, Winning

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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Sports, Football

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Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Denis Waitley

Wrestling, Giving, Willpower

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.

Jim Rohn

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 23, 2012

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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Alfred Adler

Giving, Determined, Situation

"What Life Should Mean to You". Book by Alfred Adler (p. 14), 1937.

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If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Cher

Inspirational, Motivation, Want Something

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Julius Erving

Inspirational, Basketball, Goal

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Richard M. Nixon

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Dr. Seuss

Life, Positive, Success

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Cathy Hopkins

Courage, Swimming, Waiting

Cathy Hopkins (2009). “Friend Me: Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras; Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses; Mates, Dates, and Designer Divas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.

Alice Neel

World, Want, Accomplish

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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.

Lance Armstrong

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

"It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

Uplifting, Work, Discipline

Attributed to Margaret Mead in Wayne Mazzoni "You Vs. You: Sport Psychology Got Life" (p. 90), 2005.

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