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Quotes About Determination

There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.
~ Franz Stampfl
The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.
~ George S. Patton
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
I haven't been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don't feel good, and you still get hits, that's when you know you are a bad man.
~ Manny Ramirez
Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
~ Mary Esther Harding
While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.
~ Percy Cerutty
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. . to the rebirth of real men.
~ Keorapetse Kgositsile
The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
~ Aeschylus
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
~ Albert Einstein
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
~ Meryl Streep
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
~ Robert Browning
People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
~ Robert Kennedy
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
~ Horace
But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
~ Roger Daltrey
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
~ Sam Walter Foss
It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
~ Stephen Crane
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.
~ Ted Williams
They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.
~ Thucydides
Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
~ Watchman Nee