Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Louis L'Amour

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

Michael Crichton

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Michel de Montaigne

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

Michel de Montaigne

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

Michael Kirby

Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger

Mark Twain

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Marianne Williamson

It is your thoughts and your thoughts alone that determine what's possible for you now.

Marian Wright Edelman

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

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.

Mark Batterson

Who you become is determined by how you pray

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.

Naomi Shihab Nye

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

Miyamoto Musashi

Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things

Pierre Loti

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

Kristin Armstrong

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

Kinky Friedman

Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.