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Quotes About Determination

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.
~ Hanley Ramirez
No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.
~ James Gibbons
The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.
~ Johnny Miller
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Strong convictions precede great actions.
~ James Freeman Clarke
You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.
~ Rick Scott
SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.
~ William H. McRaven
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
~ Thomas Huxley
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
~ Russell Baker
Everyone is the architect of their own happiness
~ Joseph Pilates
Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.
~ Chris Gardner
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
~ William Blake
Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
~ Lucy Lawless
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
~ Martha Washington
Only a true weakling is capable of true courage.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.
~ Drew Barrymore
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
~ Maxwell Maltz
I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Be relentless in pursuing your happiness.
~ Theo Rossi