Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Hastings

Kirsten has such great determination on the court. She runs down every shot and always give 100 percent.

Vladimir Lenin

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

Winston Churchill

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

Winston Churchill

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

Zachary Quinto

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.

William Godwin

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

Vince Lombardi

To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

Maya Angelou

Her passion was never spent in public display.

Rick Clausen

I think it's the ultimate rivalry in the SEC. There's always a little more passion when it comes to this game.

Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Rhonda Britten

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Virginia Woolf

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

Virat Kohli

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Woodrow Wilson

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Woody Allen

Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and I love everything about it. I was obsessed with jazz when I was 15 years old and I know a lot about it because I've loved it so much.

William Wordsworth

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

Alan Townsend

Whatever code of conduct they choose, the importance of ensuring an office romance doesn't cause conflict or have a negative impact on their employees' careers is paramount.

Darnell Jenkins

We made sure we sent our seniors off with a win. It was real important to win it for them. Some of them might pursue their careers in the NFL. Some of them might not. We just wanted to get them a memory before they left the Orange Bowl.

Rose Byrne

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Romola Garai

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

Rebecca De Mornay

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

Richard Gere

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

Ricardo Semler

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

Richard LaGravenese

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

Richard Carmona

In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.