Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Morton

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Kiki Smith

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

Karl Liebknecht

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

Karl Marx

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

Martha Beck

The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

Oswald Chambers

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

Oswald Chambers

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

Oswald Chambers

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

Paul Ryan

It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

Pat Cash

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

Kathy Freston

Be patient and gentle with yourself as you continue to learn new ways of eating and living. There is no need for hard-and-fast rules or white-knuckle determination. Keep leaning forward into the positive changes you are making, and then apply that same gentleness to your family and community. There is no need to promote your ideals, but rather attract interest by being informed and interesting, healthy and robust-looking, and most of all, kind. After all, if we want to create change in the world, we have to embody the quality and character we'd like to see more of!

Julian Assange

There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response

Kevin Pietersen

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

Martin Heidegger

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Marilyn Monroe

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Nicki Minaj

Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go on & take

Nicki Minaj

Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah

Nicki Minaj

Now it's me & my time, it's just me in my prime

Nicki Minaj

I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.

Nicki Minaj

When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.

Nicki Minaj

I hear the criticism loud & clear That is how I know that the time is near

Nick Saban

We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

Nick Saban

The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

Marvin J. Ashton

Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.

Mark Twain

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Marian Wright Edelman

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.