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Quotes About Determination

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
~ Wernher von Braun
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.
~ Marie Corelli
Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.
~ Baltasar Gracian
I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.
~ Stan Musial
Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
~ General Oliver Prince Smith
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
~ Chinese proverb
He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.
~ Anonymous
I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
~ Steve Prefontaine
Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
~ Jerry West
I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.
~ Shawn Mendes
Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
~ T. D. Jakes
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
~ Douglas Brinkley
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
~ James N. Watkins
Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!
~ Mark A. Cooper
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.
~ Nipsey Hussle
There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
~ Abdul Kalam
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~ W. H. Murray
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
~ Muhammad Ali
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli