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• What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  "Making a Habit of Success: How to Make a Habit of Succeeding, How to Win With High Self-Esteem". Book by MacK R. Douglas (p. 45), 1999.

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• Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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• Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Commitment, Common, Talent

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

  George H. Mead

  Psychology, Groups, Individual

  "Mind, Self, and Society". Book by George H. Mead, 1934.

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• You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Commitment, Thinking

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• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

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• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Wrestling, Athlete

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• If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Perseverance, Kings, Inspirational Life

  "When King made history at UChicago" by Susie Allen and Michael Drapa, www.uchicago.edu. January 9, 2012.

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• A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Mean, Opportunity

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

  Charles Dickens

  Motivational, Order, Done

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.216

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• At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

  Howard Thurman

  Life, Purposefulness, Core

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Equality, Order

  "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich August von Hayek, (Ch. 11), 1944.

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• She doesn't ever worry, if she wants it she'll get it on her own

  Drake

  Humble, Worry, Want

  Song: Houstatlantavegas, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

  Eliot Engel

  Believe, Self, Situation

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• What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

  Richard Miller

  Success, Perseverance, Achievement

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• I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

  Rahul Dravid

  Mistake, Thinking, Discipline

  "'I May Have Thought Too Much About the Game but That's Who I Was'". www.espncricinfo.com. July 9, 2012.

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• resolute, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Obstinate, Courses, Resolute

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2498, Delphi Classics

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• But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Sight, Desire, Dawn

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• It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.

  Claude Monet

  Rejection, Next, Should

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Hurt, Today, Action

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• My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

  Emily Carr

  White, Mountain, Done

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.99, D & M Publishers

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• If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

  Kiki Smith

  Care, Sticks, Working It

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