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Determination III

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
Author Unknown
If you got the guts to stick it out, you are going to make it.
Brian Hays
If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.
Author Unknown
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
La Rochefoucauld
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore... they had better aim at something high.
It matters if you just don't give up.
Stephen Hawking
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill
Never, Never, Never, Never give up.
Winston Churchill
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded it's almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is filled with educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
John Heywood
One difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.
John Edgar Wideman
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
Plodding wins the race.
Aesop
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
Duke Snide
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.
Tommy Lasorda
The falling drops at last will wear the stone.
Lucretius