Quotes About Determination

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The individual who can help himself is precisely the one who wills that authority exist in the world.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. (Marx, 1963)

I like being in control, was all Keely said, looking at him. She could have said, I hate for anyone to know I don't know everything, that I sometimes feel so out of my depth that three lifesavers wouldn't keep me from drowning, but she didn't What's so wrong with that?

Why make it easy when you could make it as difficult for yourself as possible? She was a woman, so, technically speaking, she could do anything.

Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, "Must get on with the tea.

She could have started up a branch library (or a spectacular house fire)

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.

Jackson had never really seen the point of existential angst. If you didn't like something you changed it and if you couldn't change it you sucked it up and soldiered on, one foot after the other. ("Remind me not to come to you for therapy," Julia said.)

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

I like the way you hustle man.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.