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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

Charles Dickens

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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman

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Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Desiderius Erasmus

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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Albert Einstein

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Hoshang N. Akhtar

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Hannah Arendt

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All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

Carl Lotus Becker

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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 Bowell Buxton

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Where the determination is, the way can be found.

George S. Clason

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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one

Richard M. Devos

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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.

Tommy Lasorda

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Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

Peter McWilliams

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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Wlters

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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Harold Rosenberg

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Determination is the binoculars for EFFORT!!!!Helps to visualize our target.

Siddharth Astir

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To wish a dream to life, your desire must be realized through determination, discipline, and drive. It is when you align your decisions and dedication with your actions that dreams manifest into destinations.

Chase LeBlanc

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