"What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists."
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"Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are."
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"If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny."
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent."
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"Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic."
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"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory."
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"In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination."
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"Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done."
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"I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream."
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"The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze."
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"You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of you onto this marvelous partnership that makes you wonder, "What can heaven offer any better then what I have here on earth?"."
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"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."
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"Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do."
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"I can never stop working hard. Each day I feel that I have to improve. Hardwork...Determination...I gotta keep pushing myself."
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"There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination."
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"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
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"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
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"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
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"By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible."
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"We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God"
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