Determination Quotes - Page 13

• Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

  Charles Simmons

  Power, Trying, Might

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.513

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• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Fortune befriends the bold.

  Emily Dickinson

  Confidence, Courage, Fear

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• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Believe, Self, People

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• Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

  Alex Trebek

  Believe, Behave, My Own

  "What I've Learned: Alex Trebek". Esquire, March 2003.

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Persistence, Writing Essays

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Persistence, Men

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• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Countryman: A Summary of Belief". Book by Hal Borland, 1965.

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• A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

  Lewis Mumford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Success, Passion

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• Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Persistence, Men

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Party, Political, Foundation

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.281, Best Books on

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• It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live... and it's phenomenally powerful.

  Bob Proctor

  Powerful, Mind, Matter

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Mar 18, 2017

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• Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Business, Ambition

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• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Sports, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 10, 2014

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• No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

  B. C. Forbes

  Fighting, Exercise, Winning

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• The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Respect, Heart, Self

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

  Ralph Marston

  Positive, Success, Inspiration

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• Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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

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• America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

  Harry S. Truman

  Courage, Jobs, Fear

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

  Loretta Young

  Careers, Resumes, Courses

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• Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Change, Happiness, Being Happy

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• Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

  James J. Corbett

  Motivational, Sports, Perseverance

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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