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No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, n...

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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determinatio...

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Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said...

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We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage ...

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My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked ...

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Joe BidenPromises to Keep: On Life and Politics

I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might ...

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Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determinat...

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I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only ...

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Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache...

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Jonah LehrerImagine: How Creativity Works

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, ...

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The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself thr...

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A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserve...

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Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it." -- McMurphy

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will sub...

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Lance ArmstrongIt's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you real...

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Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense...

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To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think t...

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Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That'...

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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things ...

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A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, ...

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I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can...

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Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

Delicate in every way but oneGod knows we like archaic kinds of funChance is the only game I play wi...

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A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

I still watch her now, like I always did, and she watches me, her brown eyes looking out from a wolf...

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When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up ...

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

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of ...

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Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of ...

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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of...

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But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got...

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Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth ...

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Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christin...

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One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.The Autobiography of Martin Luther King

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true abou...

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Maxwell MaltzThe New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

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A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Determination could easily become obsession.

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she ...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secre...

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As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself...

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest ac...

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Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many le...

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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masse...

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We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We h...

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...

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I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid,...

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I am not going to let him win, Guillaume. Not this time. I could not keep him from making my mother ...

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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anyw...

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.

Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

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Sue Monk KiddThe Invention of Wings

Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same cloud...

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Should I ask everyone the question that should not have been asked? Or should I turning up to the sk...

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The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

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Sydney SmithDictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

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Sydney SmithDictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getti...

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Tamora PierceAlanna: The First Adventure

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I ...

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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...

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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...

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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...

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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...

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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...

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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction be...

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Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with succe...

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There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. -Tommy Lasorda