Determination proverbs

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◆ Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ 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 Vinci99

◆ 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 honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

- Sarah Dessen99

◆ The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

- Vince Lombardi99

◆ Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

- Mother Teresa99

◆ You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

- William Faulkner99

◆ I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

- Edward Everett Hale99

◆ People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills99

◆ A year from now you may wish you had started today.

- Karen Lamb99

◆ It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

- George Eliot99

◆ I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

- Langston Hughes99

◆ Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?

- Lance Armstrong99