Determination Quotes - Page 5

• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

  Robert Hughes

  Motivational, Perseverance, Soul

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• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

  Man Ray

  Dream, Art, Records

  Julien Levy exhibition catalog, April 1945.

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• Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Giving, Poverty

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Giving Up, Athlete

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Commitment, Soul

  "Diamond in the Rough: More Fun Adventures with Abby Diamond". Book by Kristie Smith-Armand, July 2010.

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• The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

  John Templeton

  Achievement, Want, Way

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• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, Persistence, Force

  Carl von Clausewitz (1956). “On War”, p.1389, Library of Alexandria

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• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• The determination to win is the better part of winning.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Winning

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

  Lynn Jennings

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Commitment, Differences, Victory

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• What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive, Spiritual, Persistence

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• Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

  Thomas A. Edison

  Perseverance, Failure, Steps

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Smart, Yoga

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• Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Animal, Political, Energy

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• What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

  Learned Hand

  May, Safe, Outsiders

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

  Hortense Odlum

  Jobs, Giving, Matter

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• When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

  Joe Morton

  Years, Play, Roles

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• No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Change, Party, Responsibility

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• One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

  Lincoln Ellsworth

  Father, Names, Faces

  Lincoln Ellsworth (1938). “Beyond Horizons”, New York, Book League of America

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• We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Patience, People, Resolve

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• I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Someday, Needed, Wanted

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