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• If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

  Brené Brown

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Heart

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Persistence, Hands, Effort

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• Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Sight, Discovery, Order

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• How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Years, Knows

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• No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

  Douglas V. Steere

  Long, Goes On, Anything Worth Doing

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• Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.

  James A. Murphy III

  Frustration, Achievement, Purpose

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• I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Jesus, Horse, Believe

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• I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

  Etty Hillesum

  Would Be, Exhausted, Left

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.317, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

  Brendan Behan

  Suicide, Men, Giving

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• If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Doe, Pleasure

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

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• The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other.

  William C. Bryant

  Dirty, Hard Work, Race

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• I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Country, Lying, Pleasure

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

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• The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

  Jim Bailey

  Running, Kings, Successful

  Jim Bailey (2013). “The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story”, p.37, A&C Black

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• Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Generosity, Enemy, Majority

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

  Andrew Jackson

  Real, Government, Income

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.178

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• I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

  Tiger Woods

  Mean, Play, Care

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• Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Race, Challenges, Vehemence

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Taken, Responsibility

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• Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Gun, Race, Self

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.12, Beacon Press

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• There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

  Walter Payton

  Football, Hard Work, School

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• I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.

  Richard V. Allen

  Generosity, President, Agendas

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• You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.

  Laz Alonso

  Hard Work, May, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Matter, Obsession

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• To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Girl, Needs, Charm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Past, America, Responsible

  "Thomas Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum Say American Greatness Is Slipping and Propose Fixes". Interview with Tonu Doukopil, www.thedailybeast.com. September 09, 2011.

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