Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Pema Chodron

Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.

Pema Chodron

It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear.

Peter Jackson

It's all about his determination. You never, ever, give up once you start something, once you're on the trail of something you don't stop and that's what you have to go through when you're making a movie too. Once the train's rolling, you have to stick with it.

Peter Camejo

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

Joss Whedon

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

Kevin Harvick

We just have to keep our heads down and keep doing everything that we've been doing. This isn't a bunch of guys that are just going to go out and brag We're going to race every week like we have never won a race before. That's the kind of determination that you need when you are going to do this stuff.

Kevin Hart

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

Henry A. Kissinger

Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.

Henry A. Kissinger

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

Henry David Thoreau

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Milarepa

The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation. Once you have met with the profound instructions from a meditation master, with single pointed determination, set about realizing the Truth.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

John Cheever

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

Filippo Inzaghi

The key was our heart, determination. At one moment we thought we were out. Then I had some good luck on that rebound from the post.

LeBron James

I just bring the determination to win.

Lance Armstrong

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

John Shelby Spong

Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

John Ratzenberger

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

James J. Corbett

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

James J. Corbett

Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

Shia LaBeouf

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

Neil Peart

I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.