Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shefki's effort and determination has been there for all to see and now he just needs to get the goal that his performances so far have deserved.

Since that Ministry has responsibility for oil and gas, we will need to determine what the new Minister's priorities are before considering future activities.

She is really starting to make her mark on the national scene. She is a very determined person. Her intensity can be her strength and her weakness sometimes. Intensity is a great thing, but it doesn't have to be 24-7. I try to help her keep everything in perspective.

She needs to go to jail, for her own punishment and to deter others.

I have, in the past, seen settling down as a deterrent to growth. It doesn't have to be, though. It can be the launching of new growth.

Oscar Wilde

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

I feel that success is not determined by one or two players, but by an entire team. Everyone is important in determining success.

If in fact those tire marks are from this truck, then they would indicate that this truck went around the gates. We are working to determine if in fact that happened.

Jerry Rice

I think my secret is that there's no shortcuts for hard work, determination and having that don't give up attitude.

Jesse Jackson

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

Jesse Jackson

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Jennifer Lopez

You have to fight for the things you want.

Jean M. Auel

But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten to strike a spirit? You still don't understand, do you? You acknowledged her, Broud, she has beaten you. You did everything you could to her, you even cursed her. She's dead, and still she won. She was a woman, and she had more courage than you, Broud, more determination, more self-control. She was more man than you are. Ayla should have been the son of my mate.

James A. Baldwin

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

Jack Straw

There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.

Gaston Bachelard

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

Gary Zukav

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.

Herbert Marcuse

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

Eva Mendes

I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.

Esther Hicks

But it does take the determination that you're going to put your thoughts upon something that does feel good. And so, here we're going to make a very bold statement: any disease could be healed in a matter of days, any disease, if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate - and the healing time is about how much mix-up there is in all of that.

Erno Rubik

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

Etty Hillesum

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Etty Hillesum

I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Etty Hillesum

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

Erwin McManus

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

Erwin McManus

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.

Farrah Fawcett

But I must never forget how blessed I have been. God has given me gifts and happiness, beyond any of my simple desires. My deepest desire now is to simply live... So with hope and determination, I'd hold on and go on.

Fannie Lou Hamer

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

Ezra Taft Benson

Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

Francis Crick

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

Chris Howard

Your destiny is forged in the fires of your determination