2,733 Quotes About Determination


  • Author Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

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  • Author Randall Jarrell
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    Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

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  • Author Thomas Jefferson
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    A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

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