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Quotes About Determination

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.
~ Polly Allen Mellen
Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be
~ Og Mandino
I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.
~ R.L. LaFevers
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.
~ Ray Lewis
A man destined to hang can never drown
~ Regina Spektor
Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. "Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself. I set off, off to kill the man I loved.
~ Richelle Mead
You can't let a man like this beat you.
~ Ricky Hatton
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.
~ Robert Harris
Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
~ Robert Jordan
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.
~ H. L. Mencken
The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
~ H. Rider Haggard
Men make history. History does not make the man.
~ Harry S. Truman
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
~ Henry David Thoreau
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man that is afraid is never a man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.
~ Herbert Hoover
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
~ Herman Melville
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
~ Hermann Hesse
Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
~ Homer