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• "Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

  Samuel Smiles

  Thinking, Achievement, Able

  Samuel Smiles (2017). “Self-Help: The Original Guide to Bootstrapping Your Success”, p.198, Courier Dover Publications

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• Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.

  Al Duncan

  Achievement, Perception, World

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• Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Book, Years, Mind

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• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Friendship, Giving

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Confidence, Men, Foundation

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• I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

  Charles Lenox Remond

  Hands, Speech, Speak

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• Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.

  Brian Carter

  Health, Thinking, May

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• Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

  Martin Delany

  Work, Self, Hands

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• No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Attitude, Greatness, Men

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• Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Confidence, Attitude, Choices

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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• The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking.

  Nancy Kline

  Thinking, People, Focus

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• If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Believe, Thinking, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.13, Moody Publishers

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• In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Self, Direct Action, Campaigns

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

  William O. Douglas

  Attitude, Fate, Expression

  "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.

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• Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous.

  Leon Trotsky

  Gratitude, Grateful, Jealous

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• Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.

  Zig Ziglar

  Gratitude, Attitude

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• It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Grateful, Looks

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• We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Choices, Principles

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• A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Causes, Chance

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• I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

  Charlie Rose

  Animal, Kingdoms, Willing

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• There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Art, Government, Literature

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

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• Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Differences, Principles

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.31

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• Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

  Roger Caillois

  Dream, Reflection, Assuming

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• It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  Vision, Starting, Hopes And Fears

  John Lewis Gaddis (2006). “The Cold War: A New History”, p.10, Penguin

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