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Determination IV

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
Mark Twain
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future
he fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
The golden thread through it is enthusiasm and determination.
Author Unknown
The heights by great men reached kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
Ernest Hello
The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
J.R. Sizoo
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Ranier Maria Rilke
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
The resolved mind hath no cares.
George Herbert
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
Orison Swett Marden
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wilcox
There is no limit to a man, for what he will is what he can.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. V
ictor Hugo
Those who say it can't be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it.
Joel Arthur Barker
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on!
Franklin D. Roosevelt
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
Pat Benatar
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
James Corbett (Boxer)
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Gandhi
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.
Orison Swett Marden