Determination Quotes - Page 30

• As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation; and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Men, Political

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.214, e-artnow

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• But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, School, Loss

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• You've got to have that competiveness inside along with the drive and determination to win. I just want to be the best I can be so that I have no regrets when I'm older. I can say that I gave it the best shot that I could.

  Jazmin Carlin

  Regret, Winning, Want

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some things that might help you on the way. If you've got enthusiasm, determination and you love your sport - why shouldn't you be doing my job?

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Jobs, Couple

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Determination is number one! You have to be trained physically. You have to have a good mental attitude - wanting it and enjoying the thrill of going fast. There is a certain level of aggression with competing at professional racing level but you have to control it as it is a high reaction, fast sport.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Attitude, Numbers

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Technology enables last mile delivery. Blending it with the will and determination to deliver, Gujarat has experienced the true power of e-governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, True Power, India

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• It's all about his determination. You never, ever, give up once you start something, once you're on the trail of something you don't stop and that's what you have to go through when you're making a movie too. Once the train's rolling, you have to stick with it.

  Peter Jackson

  Giving Up, Rolling, Sticks

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

  Immanuel Kant

  Communication, Mean, Feelings

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• The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

  Terence

  Men, Games, Skills

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• The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

  Charles E. Wilson

  Simple, Goal, Want

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• Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Endurance, Overcoming

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• Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

  Virgil

  Patience, Philosophical, Endurance

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• Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

  Erik Erikson

  Exercise, Self, Choices

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

  William Ellery Channing

  Lying, Self, Individuality

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• The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

  Virgil

  Lying, Way, Coping

  Virgil (1910). “The Æneid of Virgil”, London, J. M. Dent & Company; New York, E. P. Dutton & Company [1907]

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• Give yourself another chance to make your dream a reality. Don't allow a delay to become a denial. Raise the bar on yourself, increase your determination, and explode your drive. You will fail your way to success. Everything you experience can be used to grow through...not just to go through. Make your dream happen! You deserve!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Reality, Giving

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• I was brought up with the 3 Ds: Determination, Discipline and Da Lord.

  Robin Roberts

  Discipline, Empowering, Lord

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• The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

  Martha Beck

  Heart, Differences, Desire

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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• The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

  David Drake

  Numbers, People, Personality

  David Drake (2012). “Voyage Across the Stars”, p.624, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

  John Adams

  Country, Swim, Dies

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.8

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• Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."

  John Adams

  Country, Swim, Conversation

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• The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one person and another-between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant-is energy-invisible determination.

  Charles Buxton

  Powerful, Differences, Energy

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• Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

  Menander

  Fighting, Weather, Storm

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• The only thing experience teaches you is what you can

  Elaine May

  Teach

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• All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

  Michael Johnson

  Athlete, Thinking, Generations

  "First Take debate: Michael Johnson's comments about sprinters' ability, 'slavery'". www.espn.com. July 5, 2012.

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