Determination Quotes - Page 39

• I don't think inspiration just comes from the sky. I think you have to sit down and you have to work. Sometimes it's really hard, and sometimes things come easier, but really you have to show up, you have to get to work, and you have to have determination.

  Tara Donovan

  Inspiration, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he didn't earn much money. But he was determined to pay whatever tiny part he owed for my tuition on time every month. So even though he had multiple sclerosis and often struggled just to get dressed in the morning, he hardly ever missed a day of work. His determination and love are an inspiration to me every day.

  Michelle Obama

  Morning, Dad, Inspiration

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

  Lindy West

  Feminism, Emotion, Shame

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The roles evolve over time: juries once made determinations about law; nowadays, they are supposedly limited to making factual determinations. A good move? All along, however, we will, be employing and refining "established" values in new contexts, with the possibility of restructuring them in some way.

  John Kleinig

  Moving, Possibility, Evolve

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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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• Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

  Haile Selassie

  Fall, Hard Work, Civilization

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• When the thunder rumbles,
  Now the age of gold is dead.
  When the dreams we've clung to
  Trying to stay young,
  Have left us parched and old instead.
  When my courage crumbles,
  When I feel confused and frail,
  When my spirit falters on decaying altars
  And my illusions fail --
  I go on right then.
  I go on again.
  I go on to say I will celebrate another day.
  I go on.
  If tomorrow tumbles
  And everything I love is gone,
  I will face regret all my days, and yet
  I will still go on.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Dream, Regret, Confused

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• Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Past, Sorrow, Sin

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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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• When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

  Jesse Jackson

  Self, Employment, Entrepreneurship

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

  Jesse Jackson

  Hard Work, Blood, Sweat

  "Do Blacks Dominate Sports Because of Genetics?". "Both Sides" with Jesse Jackson, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2000.

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Clothes, Skins, World

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• Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Expression, Mind, Degrees

  Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.36, Aegitas

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• The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Men, Common

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1976). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1899-1900”, p.384, University of Illinois Press

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• Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny Things, Want, Accepting

  The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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• I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.

  Tim Blixseth

  Life, Investing, Assets

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• I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

  Prince Charles

  Power, Littles, Helping

  "Rita Cosby Live & Direct", www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2005.

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• You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I would have thought.. I don't see any reason why that should suddenly disappear now that he has control of both houses.

  Chris Corrigan

  Power, Government, House

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• There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Atmosphere, Environmental

  Al Gore (2017). “The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Era of Trump”, p.296, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Goal, Promise

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2016). “Do It Now!”, p.155, Jaico Publishing House

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• We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Men, Racism

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

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• When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Business, Believe, Sacrifice

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

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• You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Fighting, Men

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 161), 1996.

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