Determination Quotes - Page 5

• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

  Robert Hughes

  Motivational, Perseverance, Soul

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• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

  Man Ray

  Dream, Art, Records

  Julien Levy exhibition catalog, April 1945.

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Perseverance, Work

  Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

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• I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Giving Up, Athlete

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Commitment, Soul

  "Diamond in the Rough: More Fun Adventures with Abby Diamond". Book by Kristie Smith-Armand, July 2010.

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• The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

  John Templeton

  Achievement, Want, Way

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• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, Persistence, Force

  Carl von Clausewitz (1956). “On War”, p.1389, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

  Thomas A. Edison

  Perseverance, Failure, Steps

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive, Spiritual, Persistence

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• Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.

  Lynn Jennings

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Commitment, Differences, Victory

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• The determination to win is the better part of winning.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Winning

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• Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

  James J. Corbett

  Fighting, Men, Remember

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• When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

  Joe Morton

  Years, Play, Roles

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• What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

  Learned Hand

  May, Safe, Outsiders

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Change, Party, Responsibility

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• Watch your thoughts, they become words.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Smart, Yoga

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• Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Animal, Political, Energy

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• If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

  Hortense Odlum

  Jobs, Giving, Matter

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• Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

  Francis Crick

  Would Be, Acid, Cases

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• Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Graduation, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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