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#1

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success

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#2

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
― Karen Lamb

tags: determination, goals, procrastination

538 likes

#3

“Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”
― Robert Strauss

tags: determination, perseverance, success

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#4

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.”
― James Oppenheim

tags: destiny, determination, happiness, motivation

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#5

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”
― Henry Ford

tags: self-empowerment

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#6

“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!”
― Jillian Michaels

tags: determination, exercise, fitness, inspirational, life-lessons

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#7

“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”
― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

tags: determination, happiness, optimism, suffering

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#8

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: determination

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#9

“Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called determined. Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.”
― Paul Graham

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#10

“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

tags: determination, intellect, life-lessons, reality

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#11

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: achievement, barrier, determination, development, feelings, help, helping-hand, humility, improvement, inferiority, intelligence, knowledge, learning, self-improvement, taught, teaching, wisdom

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#12

“You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right”
― Jack Canfield

tags: determination, motivational

76 likes

#13

“seven times down, eight times up”
― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior

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