Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Chinmoy

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

Stephen Lang

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

Michael Ondaatje

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.

John Worsfold

All of them (the players) just sticking at it and never conceding and showing real determination.

Eckhart Tolle

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.

Simon Wardell

The market seems to be determined to pass 70 dollars.

Greg Ryan

The mentality of this team is to look at any situation like this and just step out with a determination to win the day, and that?s what they did.

Hermann Hesse

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Henri Nouwen

Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

Arthur Miller

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Azim Premji

Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Benjamin Bratt

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

Benjamin Bratt

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

Jamie Drummond

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Alan Dershowitz

I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.

Alain de Botton

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.