Determination Quotes
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Everyone can practise non-violence, it only calls for determination. If you succeed, it will open the way to a far more peaceful world.
Dalai Lama
If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
vince lombardi— Reported in Vince Lombardi, Jr., What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership (2003), p. 105.
The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.
eliezer yudkowsky— Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks, a chapter of Global Catastrophic Risks, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic (2008)
We are proud of our past and our present and we face the future with unflagging determination.
mohammed bin rashid al-maktoum— Quotes on Life and its challenges, [10], sheikhmohammed.ae.
To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “ system ,” an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry,” indecision when right was “caution,” and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination.”
Isaac Asimov— Chapter 12 “Captain and Mayor”
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James— 1884 'The Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).
Let it not be said of this Atlantic generation that we left ideals and visions to the past, nor purpose and determination to our adversaries. We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much to disdain the future now.
john f. kennedy— Speech to the West German Parliament, Frankfurt, 25 June 1963.
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.
aga khan iv— Speech: Innauguration of the Aga Khan Baug - Versova, India, January 17, 1983Source: Selection of Speeches: 1976-1984
— Source: Africa Ismaili, XIV, 2 (July 1983), pp. 20-22
— Source: American Ismaili, (July 11, 1983), pp. 15-16
Robespierre listened to me with terror. He grew pale and silent for some time. This interview confirmed me in the opinion that I always had of him, that he unites the knowledge of a wise senator with the integrity of a thoroughly good man and the zeal of a true patriot but that he is lacking as a statesman in clearness of vision and determination.
jean-paul marat— L'Ami du peuple, vol. 7, p. 3965
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
man ray— Julien Levy exhibition catalog (April 1945)
Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.
Ayrton Senna— Interview, 1991 YouTube video
The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance , which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration , to realizing economic determination , becoming mentally emancipated , and ushering in a political resurgence.
nnamdi azikiwe— Quoted in A Life of Azikiwe by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey (Penguin, 1965), p. 116
It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is the determination to maintain the Empire of England.
benjamin disraeli— Speech in the House of Lords (20 February 1877), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 994.
All presentation, all demonstration and the presentation of thought is demonstration has, according to its original determination and this is all that matters to us the cognitive activity of the other person as its ultimate aim.
— Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 67
America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.
jerry ford— Address to the state conference of the Order of DeMolay, Grand Rapids, Michigan (7 September 1968); published in Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches (1973) edited by Michael V. Doyle
So I say to you, citizens of the last Arab country, this is a time for courage, for unity, for wisdom, for determination, to face these enemies with the dignity your president has shown, and I believe, God willing, we will prevail and triumph, wa-salam aleikum .
George Galloway— MemriTVSpeech at the University of Damascus, televised on Al-Jazeera TV on November 13, 2005
The government considers it the greatest of crimes against humanity to continue this war over the issue of how to divide among the strong and rich nations the weak nationalities they have conquered, and solemnly announces its determination immediately to sign terms of peace to stop this war on the terms indicated, which are equally just for all nationalities without exception.
— Report on Peace (8 November 1917), Lenin's Collected Works, Vol. 26
People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!
steve maraboli— p. 152 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who "reduced to absurdity" "the wisdom of this world" (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah that is essentially Jewish .
friedrich nietzsche— Sec. 47' (Helen Zimmern translation)
The primary principle of education is the determination of the pupil to self-activity the doing nothing for him which he is able to do for himself.
— Sir William Hamilton, p. 573. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
An economic system is not a linear system, and... this fact stands in the way of the determination of the parameters of the system by methods that presume linearity, and... it introduces great difficulties in the extrapolation from past behaviour for purposes of prediction.
— Arnold Tustin (1953) The Mechanism of Economic Systems: An approach to the problem of economic stabilisation from the point of view of control system engineering. p. ix
The spirit of our oldest chapters, combined with the vigor of our youngest who join each year, should inspire all of us to maintain our faith in the principles which unite us, our determination to live by them, and our intention to continue to be the very best fraternity in the greek letter world.
— Anthony Fusaro, Phi Sigma Kappa; Former Grand Chapter President of Phi Sigma Kappa (p. 9)
His unique importance in the history of English letters comes from his conviction that a life without knowledge or reflection was unworthy of respect , and his determination to bring the thought of the past within the range of his subjects' understanding . The translations of ancient books by which he tried to reach this end form the beginning of English prose literature.
— Sir Frank Stenton, in Anglo-Saxon England (1943),1975 edition, pp. 269-70
Anarchism says, Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
— Voltairine de Cleyre , "Anarchism & American Traditions" in Mother Earth (December 1908/January 1909)
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
— Timoleon, sec. 6.
At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars.
— C. A. R. Hoare, "The Emperor's Old Clothes", 1980 Turing Award lecture, Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (February 1981): pp. 75-83.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
og mandino— The Greatest Salesman in the World
I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.
chuck norris— American martial artist
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
colin powell— It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
