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• Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Causes, Sacred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.91, Rajpal & Sons

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• Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Freedom, Long, Mind

  "Industrial Unionism". Eugene V. Debs' address at Grand Central Palace in New York (December 10, 1905), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.

  W. G. Grace

  Mind, Half, Hitting

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• What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Responsibility, Army, Decision

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• Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'Theres a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Children, Block, Rip

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

  Thomas Merton

  Freedom, Writing, Helping Others

  Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti (2007). “Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing”, p.198, Shambhala Publications

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• I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

  S. E. Hinton

  Mind, Want, Hell

  S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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• Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.

  Ma Jaya

  Self, Mind, Higher

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• Make up your mind that nothing is more important than how I feel now, because now is everything. Now is the whole enchilada. Now is the power of me. Now, now, now, now, now... You might as well start somewhere, and it might as well be now. Why not start improving your life now, now, now?

  Esther Hicks

  Mind, Important, Why Not

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• Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Self Confidence, Mind, Acting

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

  John Henry Newman

  Life, Pain, Mind

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• First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!

  Homer

  Mind, Ponies, Want

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• A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

  William Graham Sumner

  War, Decision, Mind

  William Graham Sumner (1963). “Social Darwinism: selected essays”, Prentice Hall

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• If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

  James Worthy

  Pain, Play, Mind

  "James Worthy gives his two cents on the Lakers-Suns series". Interview with Mark Medina, lakersblog.latimes.com. May 17, 2010.

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• Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hands, Mind, Excellence

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• Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

  Milan Kundera

  Years, Knowing, Decision

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• Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

  Muriel Spark

  Mind, Fiction, Facts

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• Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

  Joel Osteen

  Mind, Matter, Way

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Air, Mind, Way

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• As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

  Jeff Sessions

  Mind, Important, Agents

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• It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.36, e-artnow

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• "You’re exactly like Charlie." She'd sighed, resigned. "Once you make up your mind, there is no reasoning with you. Of course, exactly like Charlie, you stick by your decisions, too."

  Stephenie Meyer

  Decision, Mind, Sticks

  "Breaking Dawn: Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, February 26, 2009.

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• I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Rain, Flower, Fall

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• When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Running, Mind

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4977, Delphi Classics

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