Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

George Gillespie

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

Jon Meacham

In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.

John Bruton

The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of the very few that was still democratic in 1939. This book shows how the steely determination of one man, Kevin O'Higgins, made this possible. O'Higgins faced down mutinies in both the Gardai and the Army. He dissolved the Dáil Courts which were a parallel system that might easily have undermined the conventional courts. With WT Cosgrave, he put through a constitution which reconciled the local opponents of independence with the new State.

John Cheever

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

You come, you unload and on Friday you have a single night session right away that could determine the pole,

You can't stop that. You can have checks, polygraphs, precautions -- at the end of the day, if somebody is determined to do it, they're going to do it.

Tipu Sultan

We see export potentials of leather products to Indian market, but India's cumbersome rules may deter us.

Andy Murray

Vancouver's got such a great team. To fall down two goals to them (and come back), showed a lot of determination on the part of our team. I thought we had the better scoring chances.

You'd rather lose 6-1 or 6-2; that way you're embarrassed and you want to come back. If you lose 3-2 or 4-2, you're not as determined to come back.

Peter Arnett

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

Paul Graham

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

You can see how determined they are to make sure this is over quickly,

Barack Obama

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Filippo Inzaghi

The key was our heart, determination. At one moment we thought we were out. Then I had some good luck on that rebound from the post.

These kids don't have the same drive and determination that I did.

These guys represent the epitome of determination and hard work. They go to places like Phoenix to practice, their parents make 160-mile round trips ? they do what it takes.

These freshmen are determined and relentless, and they're just going to get better and better.

Sam Miller

It's been very important to financing police pensions. I can tell you the Florida Legislature passed it and determined it to be good public policy.

Brian Sabean

It'll be up to him to determine how he feels and how much he wants to do.

Jay Brown

It just speaks volumes for people that have a determination to make things happen.

It's hard in this setting to truly determine a winner, but it allows us to solve the impasse in the negotiations in a timely manner so we can focus on what's most important, which is getting ready for the season.

Sophie Kinsella

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Stephen Lang

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

Ray Lewis

Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.

Thomas Jefferson

A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

Rick Riordan

He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

Taylor Caldwell

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

Tana French

We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I: As I am so will you be...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

Solomon Ortiz

Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.