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“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
“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
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“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
“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
“Slow but steady wins the race.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“My soul should always look back and wonder at the mountains I had climbed and the rivers I had forged and the challenges which still await down the road. I am strengthened by that knowledge.” Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
“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
“Don’t start anything you’re not prepared to finish.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“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
“we never succeeded in deflecting the Americans from their purpose. Their national psychology is such that the bigger the Idea the more whole-heartedly and obstinately do they throw themselves into making it a success. It is an admirable...” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“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
“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
“It wasn't money or love that I was looking for. I had a heightened sense of awareness, was set in my ways, impractical and a visionary to boot.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“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
“A battle is won by those who firmly resolve to win it!” Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“You ask, What is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” Winston Churchill, The Second World War
“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
“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

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