Quotes About Determination

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and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

Frank! would have argued that we are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how

proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

la libertad interior puede elevar al hombre por encima de un destino adverso

El hombre no está absolutamente condicionado y determinado, al contrario, es él quien decide si cede ante determinadas circunstancias o si resiste frente a ellas… El hombre no se limita a existir, sino decide cómo será su existencia, en qué se convertirá en el minuto siguiente.

but even one such example is sufficient proof that man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how," could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic efforts regarding prisoners.

I bear witness of the inestimable extent to which man, although he is never free from conditions and determinants, is always free to take a stand to whatever he might have to face. Although he may be conditioned and determined, he is never fully determined, he is not pandetermined.

Ultimately, man is not subject to the conditions that confront him; rather, these conditions are subject to his decision.

Man is by no means fully free. Man is not free from determinants. Man's freedom is a finite freedom, not freedom from conditions; his freedom lies in the potentiality for taking a stand toward whatever conditions might confront him.

But even one such example is sufficient proof that man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

A human being is a deciding being.

giving him inner strength by pointing out to him a future goal to which he could look forward.

Be the master of your will and the servant of your conscience

The last of the human freedoms [is] to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Rapp took his pathetic self-absorbed emotion and shoved it as far down in his gut as it would go, and he plugged it with the first and only thing he had available—anger. That anger slowly metastasized into a suit of armor. For the first time since the news had hit him, he saw a way out. A faint light at the far end of the cavern. He wasn't sure what it was, but he knew he had to head toward it. It was the only thing that offered him hope.

He hesitated for a split second, then told himself not to think. "I'd rather go down swinging," he muttered as he shut the door. If he survived this little ordeal he'd have to ask Lewis if talking to yourself was a symptom of losing your mind.

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run. Never look back, and avoid the whole mess. Let

So intense was Kennedy's concentration that she hadn't