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.

Herb Sendek

I was extremely proud of their grit, of their determination ... really showed tremendous resolve. At the end of day, we had guys step up and make plays.

Fulton J. Sheen

If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.

Christopher Hitchens

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward. It strips us of the right to make our own determination, as all humans always have, about what is and what is not a right human action.

Herman Melville

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Hortense Odlum

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Mark Cox

That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Augusten Burroughs

You manufacture beauty with your mind

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Jason Behr

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.

Arthur C. Clarke

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

Dean Koontz

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Alice Cary

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

John Dryden

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.