![How could someone with a renowned ability to inspire, communicate complex ideas, and connect with voters find himself in this position? The President [Barack Obama], though a dedicated student of history, has seemingly failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations: They've required single-minded determination, and the willingness to battle until the fight was won.](/assets/img/quote-photos/how-could-someone-with-a-renowned-ability-to-inspire-communicate-complex-ideas.jpg)
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determination simple goal
The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough. Charles E. Wilson
determination men order
I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but 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, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed. Charles Dickens
determination past age
How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time. Charles Caleb Colton
determination character interesting
Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.
determination dark fire
Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish. Charles Simmons
determination might will-and-determination
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
determination doubt fight healthy mind miss seeing southern virginia west
There is no doubt in my mind after seeing the Southern Miss match, West Virginia match, and even the Troy match, there is a lot of fight and determination in this team. And if they are healthy they can (win). Mac Gifford
determination husband gun
And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me. Dianne Feinstein
determination believe hard-work
As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination. Dexter Fletcher
fighting honor beats
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that? Carol Moseley Braun
fighting
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time. Carlos Fuentes
fighting years goes-on
Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently. C. S. Lewis
fighting left people
We want people to know that Como's not going to be a dumping ground. The drugs left a stigma, but we're fighting that.
fighting men joy
Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature. Agnes Smedley
fighting would-be dull
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater. Alan Sillitoe
fighting space people
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space. Alan Shepard
fighting gentleman ugly
I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip. Charlotte Bronte
fighting battle feminism
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
ideas mirrors want
I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself. Carol Vorderman
ideas people wrong-ideas
Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.
ideas new-orleans rebuilding
Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman? Carlos Mencia
ideas long people
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else. Carlos Ghosn
ideas perspective important
It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked. Carlos Castaneda
ideas political independence
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas. Carl Bernstein
ideas tables calculations
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! Carl Friedrich Gauss
ideas giving appetite
You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.
ideas savages would-be
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.