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Quotes About Determination

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.
~ Albert M. Greenfield
And man will go on. Man, not men.
~ Ayn Rand
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
~ C. S. Lewis
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
~ Samuel Smiles
You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it. If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it.
~ Sophia Amoruso
Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.
~ Sophocles
There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The great man is always the man of mighty effort.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
~ W. C. Fields
Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
~ Will Rogers
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
~ Yulia Tymoshenko
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
~ Horace Mann
Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.
~ Jackson C. Frank
It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.
~ James McCosh
L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.
~ Joel Achenbach
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Out here a man settles his own problems.
~ John Wayne