Determination And Success Quotes

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

Barack Obama

Motivational, Determination, Helping Others

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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Change, Positive

Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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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, Determination

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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Richard DeVos

Perseverance, Determination, Adversity

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell

Motivational, Dream, Determination

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Success, Football

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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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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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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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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

Motivational, Success, Meaningful

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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Inspirational, Funny, Life

The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Moliere

Motivational, Positive, Success

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