Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Vincent Peale

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.

Epictetus

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

Emily Carr

My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

Emil Zatopek

When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.

Jonathan Davis

The determination was made by us and Prudential that this project was strong enough that we could go forward on a speculative basis,

Richard Boucher

The determination is there, the effort has not slackened in any way, ... We wouldn't be here if we didn't think there was some potential.

Tony Robbins

Because the challenges will continue to show up in life, but if you have the inner strength - whether that be your faith, your determination or your incredible love for self, for God and for others - then I think you'll have the capacity to live a life that's extremely fulfilled.

Tony Robbins

Do something physical every day, even if it's just five or ten minutes of fast walking a couple times a day. That tends to replace fear and anger with determination and courage. It can change your identity, your momentum.

Tony Benn

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.

Tony Blair

The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

Tony Blair

Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.

Simon Sinek

The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.

Richard Branson

I personally don't believe anything is impossible. With enough determination and effort, almost everything is possible.

Reese Witherspoon

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

Richard Branson

Luck is when determination meets opportunity

Richard Branson

Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

Richard Branson

It's never easy to set up any business, but it comes back to determination and drive and the love of what you do!

Richard Branson

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

Tiger Woods

I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

Rahul Dravid

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

Radhanath Swami

Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.

Radhanath Swami

Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.

Radhanath Swami

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

Lincoln Ellsworth

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

Lee Iacocca

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

Terry Goodkind

His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.

Ram Dass

If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.

Sean Hampton

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

Sean Hannity

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

Lexa Doig

I'm determined to be a diva.

Marcus Garvey

History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.