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Determination Quotes


"I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism."


"Commitment and co-operation to overcome barriers and difficulties, and determination to achieve the standards of the EU as well as NATO membership, are and have always been the principal target."


"Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination."


"When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable."


"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win."


"To achieve success, ignore doubt; fame, ignore haters; greatness, ignore fear; and immortality, ignore hardship."


"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."


"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."


"Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success."


"Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze."


"Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years."


"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."


"I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow."


"Success belong to the man who refuses to fair failure."


"It is difficult to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of doubt, impossible to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of fear, but conceivable to soar to your destiny carried by the wings of faith."


"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."


"But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship."


"I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of."


"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."


"Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time."


"To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself."


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


"If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there's one thing you can't say about me - that I didn't attack it."


"Success and perseverance are Siamese twins: where one goes the other follows."


"It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down."


"I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it."


"How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits."


"The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland."


"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."


"You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early... Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories!"


"If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it."


"Success does not come by itself, you need to fight for it."


"There is no excuse to give for being a beggar. We all have imaginations to work out our dreams. Work yours out."


"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."


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


"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."


"We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is."


"It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work."


"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."


"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."


"Success gives in to those who truly desire her."


"Nothing great comes to pass in life without perseverance."


"Dream with all of your mind. Work with all of your heart. Persevere with all of your strength. Succeed with all of your soul."


"The heart's will is greater than the hand's strength."


"Success happens when you refuse to give up."


"We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had."


"Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence."


"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."


"It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed."


"The strength to move forward when others stop, to keep going when others turn back, is the key to unlocking your greatest potential."
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