Determination Quotes
1740 quotes by 1106 authors
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Francis Bacon
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
— Milton Berle
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
— William Blake
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
— Erma Bombeck
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed…
— Daniel Boone
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
— Hal Borland
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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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.
— Les Brown
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