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Quotes about Determination

Confidence. The secret to a man's success.
— Barack Obama
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I don't know how you go on, but I really hope you'll keep doing it. That you won't give up esperanza. I thought of that last night. Esperanza is all you get, no second chances. What you have to do is try and think of reasons to stick it out.
— Barbara Kingsolver
After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. —WALLACE STEVENS, "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard
— Barbara Kingsolver
He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Best way to predict your future is to create it.
— Stephen Covey
This power of choice means that we are not merely a product of our past or of our genes; we are not a product of how other people treat us. They unquestionably influence us, but they do not determine us. We are self-determining through our choices. If we have given away our present to the past, do we need to give away our future also?
— Stephen Covey
There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.
— Stephen Covey
Whatever you can do, or dream, begin it! For boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
— Stephen Covey
While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.
— Stephen Covey
The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do
— Stephen Covey
He who has a 'why' can live with any 'what.
— Stephen Covey