Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Williams

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

Al Groh

Really, we haven't addressed that or made any determination.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The only things you learn are the things you tame

B. H. Liddell Hart

While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

B. H. Liddell Hart

A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.

Bill Shankly

I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

C. S. Lewis

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

Shelley Smith

Our players were not happy with the results from last year and the record was not indicative of the level of soccer they played. They have been working hard to do everything they can to correct that and a refuse to lose attitude is key entering this fall. They have the motivation to improve and don't want a repeat of what their record was last fall.

Carleen Courtney

Patient care wasn't suffering, but the efficiency and the attitude of the nurses were.

Patricia Richardson

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

Dennis Johnson

Our main goal is to steadily improve throughout the season. The girls positive attitudes are their biggest assets. They all work very hard and have a strong desire to improve, which is going to be essential to their success.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Rose Mashigo

Our lives are driven and channeled by our decisions, whatever situation we find ourselves in, we got ourselves there.

Kyle Fenner

Our kids will take the same attitude they've taken all year and that's to compete and rebound and play defense and execute on offense.

Evelina Christillin

People have been incredibly receptive, showing a very positive attitude and lots of goodwill. Turin will be a much more international city now.

Mike Lowell

Sure, there's been a little bandwagon jumping. But I think that's only normal, ... It's tough to identify with guys who haven't been with the organization for a while. I still believe you have to win back the fans, and I still think, after '97, I guess the fans had an attitude of 'You got to prove us wrong before we start giving you our money to watch you play.'

Bertrand Russell

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bryant H. McGill

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Catherine Ponder

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Catherine Ponder

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Earl Nightingale

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

Albert Einstein

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Adolf Hitler

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

Cornel West

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

Ram Dass

Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.