Determination Quotes

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Determination doesn't make it easier, it makes it possible.

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

You have your goals. They may be small goals or they may be large goals. As you strive to achieve your goals, sometimes your conditions change and your goals will change as well.

Your larger goals are less clear. You understand the outcome that you would like to achieve. Yet, the path to travel is not as clear and you have doubts as to your ability to accomplish these goals.

I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

With determination and purpose, I head into the light.

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

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.

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.

I don't think that anyone should doubt Israel's determination to defend itself against terror and destruction.

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

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.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

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

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to survive and live.

If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.

Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

Determination, however, can take the place of patience, if earnestly applied.

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

Your destiny is forged in the fires of your determination

We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

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

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

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.