I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
Unleash Your Willpower: Quotes to Ignite Your Determination - page 61
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
Robert Staughton Lynd
I do know I'm a control freak.
Alton Brown
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.
Natsuo Kirino
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
Peter McWilliams
The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.
Howard Mumford Jones
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
It's about having personality...it's not about being the bad guy, it's about entertaining people.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Horace Lorimer
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.
John Ziman
Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
Denzel Washington
How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.
Michael Ondaatje
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.
Vanna Bonta
