Quotes about determination
determination decision ordinary
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. Brian Tracy
determination planning neurotic
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.) Jane Jacobs
determination might too-much
I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in. Jana Kramer
determination too-much drive-and-determination
I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me.
determination business purpose
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
determination war military
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory. Carl von Clausewitz
determination expression mind
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.
determination military persistence
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
determination cost species
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs C. S. Lewis
determination feelings doe
But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.
determination rocks willpower
I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock. Carnie Wilson
determination achievement age
That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word. Alan Lightman
determination believe atmosphere
There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere. Al Gore
determination men common
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination. Charles R. Swindoll
determination battle arena
Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.
determination book years
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology. Charles Darwin
determination determined felt mistake needed punish
We determined he made a mistake, after a review. I felt like it was a mistake we needed to punish him over.
determination determined early site structures
We determined early on in our site evaluations that most of the structures weren't usable. Lori Nelson
determination ideas air
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it. Jane Austen
determination mind want
When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do. Janet Jackson
determination expansion forward push shared
There is a shared determination to push forward with the expansion of the mission. James Appathurai
determination hunting two
I don't know why one can't chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue. Anton Chekhov
determination self black
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. bell hooks
determination struggle heart
In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.
determination fighting ideas
How could someone with a renowned ability to inspire, communicate complex ideas, and connect with voters find himself in this position? The President [Barack Obama], though a dedicated student of history, has seemingly failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations: They've required single-minded determination, and the willingness to battle until the fight was won. Arianna Huffington
determination team thinking
We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had. Cobi Jones
determination waiting
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it. Booker T. Washington
determination character history
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us. Billy Bragg
determination hard-work oysters
I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. Chris Evert
determination believe people
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. Charles Spurgeon
determination helping-others way
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Barack Obama
determination helping fit
Being fit helps me improve my concentration, my will power and even my determination. Arjun Rampal
determination judging guilt
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. Antonin Scalia