Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

Alfred North Whitehead

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

Aldous Huxley

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

Alexander Graham Bell

Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

Adolf Hitler

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

Adolf Hitler

National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.

We don't know why he was playing Russian roulette. But we have determined that's what he was doing.

Aberjhani

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

This story is about the report. Let people read it and make their own determination.

When devastating events like Katrina hit, we discover a new level of leadership and determination. We are extremely proud of Marcus and Leon, and the entire W team in New Orleans for their strength and spirit.

Walter Benjamin

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Abu Bakar Bashir

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

Abraham Lincoln

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

Amy Poehler

Your career and your passion don't always match up. Plenty of talented people don't have the careers they want. Plenty of untalented people make millions and make movies. There is a difference between determination and talent.

Andy Andrews

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

Aga Khan IV

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.

Aesop

Great determination can overcome most odds.

Adrienne Rich

In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.

Adam Hochschild

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

Abraham Maslow

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Nicola Sturgeon

Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

Ludwig von Mises

The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy the individual is born into a collective and it is "natural" and proper for him to behave as members of this collective are expected to behave. Expected by whom? Of course, by those individuals to whom, by the mysterious decrees of some mysterious agency, the task of determining the collective will and directing the actions of the collective has been entrusted.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

Ludwig von Mises

It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future event. In order to anticipate correctly they must also anticipate correctly the quantity as it were of each factor's contribution and the instant at which its contribution will become effective.

Our publisher is an incredibly determined guy. He saw it as a symbolic thing. He sort of willed it to happen.

Staying poised. That's what really won us the game. Also determination in the second half.

My son has come up always determined to make it. He has always been a role model, always taught to be leader. He's never settled for second best. He's always strived to be No. 1.

Bernice King

My mother has a very strong determination to succeed. She looked forward to therapy and was full of joy and very focused.

Bernice King

My mother has a very strong determination to succeed, ... She looked forward to therapy and was full of joy and very focused.

I saw a very determined, focused look in his eye that we are going to get this done.

Chris Evans

I was determined to play harder. I learned from my mistake, and sitting out that game, I realized how much my team really needs me.

I think a lot of that was just determination. We told them in the locker room before the game that we wanted to put some pressure on them (Dan River) and we were just successful with it tonight.

Glen Davis

I think it was the will. The will and determination that I had that I wanted to win.