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To him who is determined it remains only to act.
-Italian Proverb
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The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.
-Anon.
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Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are foosteps on the moon.
-Anon.
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When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest! If you must-but never quit.
Life is queer, with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might of won if he'd stuck it out;
Stick to your task, though the pace seems slows-
You may succeed with one more blow.
Success is failure turned inside out-
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt-
And you may never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-
It's when things seem worse that YOU MUSN'T QUIT.
-Anon.
You Musn't Quit
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I'll have a full recovery - that's the utmost physically my body has the ability to heal. Then I will push about 20 percent further, through sheer mental tenacity. If you're not prepared for that, go elsewhere.
-Anon.
Navy Seal: a note he posted on his Bethesda Naval hospital door.
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The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
-Dean Acheson
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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
-Alexander The Great
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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
-Muhammad Ali
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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
-James Allen
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Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.'
-Mary Kay Ash
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To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
-John Bach
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
-Roger Bannister
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When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Trying to stay young,
Have left us parched and old instead.
When my courage crumbles,
When I feel confused and frail,
When my spirit falters on decaying altars
And my illusions fail --
I go on right then.
I go on again.
I go on to say I will celebrate another day.
I go on.
If tomorrow tumbles
And everything I love is gone,
I will face regret all my days, and yet
I will still go on.
-Leonard Bernstein
from Leonard Bernstein's Mass
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I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you? Nehemiah 6:3
-Bible
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So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height; for the people had a mind to work. Nehemiah 4:6
-Bible
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Practice easing your way along...Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
-Smiley Blanton
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One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
-Richard Nelson Bolles
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Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
-Dorothea Brande
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
-Louis D. Brandeis
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.
-Les Brown
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
-Robert Burns
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The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy -- invincible determination -- a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
-Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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Books about Determination
