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Quotes About Determination

Resolution is our inherent character, and courage hath never yet forsaken us. Wherefore, what is it that we want? Why is it that we hesitate?
~ Thomas Paine
Arms they had none, nor scarcely any who knew the use of them: but desperate resolution, when every hope is at stake, supplies, for a while, the want of arms. Near where the Prince de Lambesc was drawn up, were large piles of stones collected for building the new bridge, and with these the people attacked the cavalry. A party of the French guards, upon hearing the firing, rushed from their quarters and joined the people; and the night coming on, the cavalry retreated.
~ Thomas Paine
I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way
~ Thomas Paine
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~ Thomas Paine
The will is the keystone in the arch of human achievement. It is the culmination of our complex mental faculties. It is the power that rules minds, men and nations.
~ Thomas Parker Boyd
Her mother had not told Jane that happiness was not something she had waited for, but something she had decided.
~ Thomas Perry
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~ Thomas Perry
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~ Thomas Perry
I ain't stopping for nobody. I got work to do and I'm gonna do it
~ Thomas Robinson
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
~ Thomas S. Monson
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
~ Thomas Sowell
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
~ Thomas Troward
When the impossible is eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, is the solution ... unless you're mistaken as to just what is and what isn't impossible.
~ Thomas W. Knowles
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
~ Thomas Watson
As David's three worthies ventured their lives, and brake through the host of the Philistines for water, 2 Sam. xxiii. 46, — Such a kind of violence must we use, breaking through all dangers for obtaining the 'water of life.
~ Thomas Watson
Si quiere usted alcanzar la excelencia, puede lograrlo hoy mismo. A partir de este segundo, no haga ningún trabajo que no sea excelente.
~ Thomas Watson
You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.
~ Thomas Watson (Sr.)
Why do we fall? So we can get back up again.
~ Thomas Wayne
Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Without triers there would never be any successors
~ Thomas Wright
We must just keep on and on until the mountains themselves crumble from nausea or we learn to scale them and cool our hands in the sky.
~ Thorne Smith
XV - Grandfather Frog Gives Up Hope XVI - The Merry Little Breezes Work Hard XVII - Striped Chipmunk Cuts the String XVIII - Grandfather Frog Hurries Away XIX - Grandfather Frog Jumps into More Trouble XX - Grandfather Frog Loses Heart XXI - The Merry Little Breezes Try to Comfort Grandfather Frog XXII - Grandfather Frog's Troubles Grow XXIII - The Dear Old Smiling Pool Once More I
~ Thornton W. Burgess
trying to dig it larger. He knew there wasn't room enough for him to get between those roots.
~ Thornton W. Burgess
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
~ Thornton Wilder