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Maya Angelou
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou
Topics: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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Maya Angelou
“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou
Topics: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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Barack Obama
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama
Topics: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work
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Benjamin Franklin
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin
Topics: determination, inspirational, patience
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Karen E. Quinones Miller
“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
― Karen E. Quinones Miller
Topics: confidence, determination, inspiration, motivation, negativity, self-confidence
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Topics: determination, fate
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Leonardo da Vinci
“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
Topics: activism, determination, enterprise, success
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Sarah Dessen
“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 Dessen
Topics: activism, determination, initiative, self-improvement
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Winston Churchill
“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 Churchill
Topics: determination, perseverance
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Vince Lombardi
“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 Lombardi
Topics: determination, perseverance, success
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