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Determination Quotes
"Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination."
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"I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism."
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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."
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"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
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"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
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"I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out."
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"The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."
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"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."
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"It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work."
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"Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Of course it's important to know what's right and what's wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause."
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"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."
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"Everybody say it's impossible, but I'll try to make it possible."
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"When you resolve to do a thing, you make a decision to act, to go all the way, come hell or high water. It's something you're committed to accomplish, having firmly decided to see it through to the end."
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"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."
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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."
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"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."
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"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
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"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Stronger your reasons, stronger the will power."
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"How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you'll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That's the way our strange world works."
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"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
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"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
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"Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination."
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"A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies."
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"Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it."
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"You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction."
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"It is impossible says our distressed mind; try it, whispers admonishing us, the dream."
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"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."
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"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."
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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
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"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."
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"Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image."
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"Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility."
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"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win."
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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."
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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."
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"Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek."
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"To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players."
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"So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation."
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"If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that."
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"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."
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"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."
45
"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."
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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means you developed the traits that are specific to successful people, passion- the ability to stay focus focused and the determination to never, never, never give up."
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"Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze."
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"Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence."
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"When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable."
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