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• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  Confucius

  Evil, Despise

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• Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

  George Jackson

  Real, Perspective, Parole

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

  Nick Saban

  Successful, Being Successful, Relative

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• Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Challenges, Faces

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• You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Confidence, Feelings, Needs

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• Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Moving, Past, Errors

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• Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

  Ann Landers

  Summer, Teacher, Work

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• There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

  Liz Murray

  Hard Work, Looks, Levels

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• Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

  Cory Booker

  Inability

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• What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

  Helen Keller

  Quiet, Life Is, Difficulty

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.37, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ambition, Growth, Germs

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• You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Hard Work, Creativity, Self

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.22, Penguin

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• Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Running, Fighting

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Success always demands a greater effort.

  Winston Churchill

  Effort, Demand, Greater

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Second World War: Their finest hour”

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• Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

  Peter McWilliams

  Matter, Shifting, Will Power

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

  William Faulkner

  Optimistic, Suffering, Ifs

  William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• Failure builds muscle,
  determination, and dreams.

  Michael Jordan

  Dream, Muscles

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• Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

  Richard Branson

  Hard Work, Passion, Cash

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• Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Memorial

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• I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Want, Fine, Committed

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.224, Beacon Press

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• The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

  Frederick Douglass

  Past, Thinking, Desire

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• My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Self, Practice, Principles

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• It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear.

  Pema Chodron

  Commitment, Opportunity, Trying

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• There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.

  Julian Assange

  Unity, Oppression, Response

  "Julian Assange urges US to end 'war on whistleblowers'". www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Moving, Opportunity

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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