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“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“No man, my lord, should make a vow, for if He ever swears he will not do a thing, His afterthoughts belie his first resolve.” Sophocles, Antigone
“Thy resolution may fluctuate on the wild and changeful billows of human opinion, but mine is anchored on the Rock of Ages.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“A battle is won by those who firmly resolve to win it!” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but...” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“For, so long as he conceives that he cannot do it, so long is he not determined to do it, and consequently so long is it impossible for him to do it.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Don’t start anything you’re not prepared to finish.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly, and I have never turned my back upon one yet.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time” Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“To major things the surest road is on the minor pains bestowed, if you don't happen to be in a hurry.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Our day in Toulouse with the Airbus A380 has since brought my mind back time and time again to Howard Hughes and that film and has made me realise just how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
“Slow but steady wins the race.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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