Determination Quotes — Page 39

Writer, Humorist

“One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.”

Inspirational Play Determination

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John Adams

Founding Father, Politician

“Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.”

Country Determination Swim

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”

Determination Dies

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!”

Years Knows

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John Adams

Founding Father, Politician

“Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."”

Country Determination Swim

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John Ruskin

Art Critic, Writer

“The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.”

Water Determination Luxury

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Joseph Heller

Novelist

“Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.”

Determination Accomplishment Rambling

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June Jordan

Poet, Activist

“... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.”

Self Blood Determination

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Judith Butler

Philosopher, Gender Theorist

“Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal opens the way for a more radical form of self-determination, one that happens in solidarity with others who are undergoing a similar struggle.”

Self Struggle Determination

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Judith Butler

Philosopher, Gender Theorist

“The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.”

Self Determination Protection

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John Carroll

Actor

“[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.”

Determination Determined Ideology

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

“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.”

Special Army Determination

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