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Quotes About Determination

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
~ Louis L'Amour
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
~ Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
~ Mark Twain
I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.
~ Max Schmeling
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him
~ Muhammad Ali
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.
~ Omar Sharif
The world makes way for the man with an idea.
~ Orison Swett Marden
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.
~ Richard M. Nixon
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.
~ Jack Kirby
Stern men with empires in their brains.
~ James Russell Lowell
The Old Man ain't afraid of hell
~ James Thurber
There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.
~ Jimmy Thompson
There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.
~ Joe Frazier
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
~ John Adams
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
~ John Burroughs
A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
~ Jose Ferrer
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
~ Karl Barth
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
~ Kenneth Scott Latourette
The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.
~ Lettie Cowman