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Determination Quotes
"I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism."
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"Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination."
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"I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out."
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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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"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
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"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."
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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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"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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"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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"There is no excuse to give for being a beggar. We all have imaginations to work out our dreams. Work yours out."
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"Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence."
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"It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work."
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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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"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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"A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies."
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"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."
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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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"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win."
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"To achieve success, ignore doubt; fame, ignore haters; greatness, ignore fear; and immortality, ignore hardship."
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"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."
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"Your willpower to achieve the goal ought to stronger than any obstacle."
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"By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me."
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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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"You must be determined to chase your dreams."
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"Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success."
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"Never give up. It's like breathing-once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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"I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
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"Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't right to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me."
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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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"Your success lies behind your choices... To get there, you must choose it and drive your dreams in that chosen direction!"
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"Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror."
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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
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"Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence."
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"You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose.You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh? I shall do it, since you refuse!"
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"When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more."
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"So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation."
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"Understanding that quitting is never an option, leaves winning as the only option."
"Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it."
"If you plan to build walls around me, know this-I will walk through them."
"With courage, confident and commitment, the dream is possible."
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