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Quotes About Determination

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
~ Samuel Smiles
There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
~ Satchel Paige
A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.
~ Steve Sheinkin
A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.
~ Thomas Campbell
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.
~ Tom Hardy
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.
~ Unknown
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
~ Walter Reisch
If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
~ Zakk Wylde
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
~ Hafez
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
~ Horace
I have never given up on men easily.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
~ James Harrington
If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.
~ Jim Courier
Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.
~ John Wayne
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
~ Leon Blum
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
~ Charles Darwin
I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
~ Charlie Sheen
I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
~ Chi McBride
For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
~ David Mamet