Determination Quotes - Page 10

• Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

  Jim Rohn

  Challenges, Soul, Mind

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sleep, Writing, Dark

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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• Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Insperational, Positive Energy

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

  Gale Sayers

  Sports, Football, Motivation

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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• We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

  Sonia Johnson

  Change, Success, Struggle

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• I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Tattoo

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• A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Dream, Work, Reality

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• It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Motivational, Change, Business

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• You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Motivation

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.144, Lulu.com

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• You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

  James J. Corbett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.28, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

  Michael Jordan

  Success, Basketball, Inspirational Sports

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• The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Brother, Possible And Impossible

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "Women of Faith and Spirit: Their Words & Thoughts". Book edited by Dayna Beilenson and Mary Alice Warner, p. 42, 1987.

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• Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

  Cory Doctorow

  Kids, Little Brother, Cash

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.87, Macmillan

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• As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

  Bruce Lee

  Faith, Confidence, Spiritual

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• Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Exercise, And Love

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

  Marie Curie

  Ambition, Desire, Should

  Marie Curie (1921). “The Discovery of Radium: Address by Madame M. Curie at Vassar College, May 14, 1921”

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• True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  True Wisdom, Vigorous

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