Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Weatherill

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

We're operating as usual. We are very determined. Robin is very organized and is doing the job well.

David Booth

We're one of the only teams without a superstar. Our success isn't determined by one player, it's determined by the team.

Al Gore

There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.

Charles R. Swindoll

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

Charles R. Swindoll

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

Charles Darwin

During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.

Blaise Pascal

Custom determines what is agreeable.

Justin Smith

When the officials start to determine the outcome of the game, people have to speak up. It seemed just about every good play we had was called back.

Chris Evert

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

Charles Spurgeon

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.

Ayrton Senna

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Ayrton Senna

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.

Audie Murphy

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Bertrand Russell

There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Carl von Clausewitz

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.

Carl von Clausewitz

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.

Carl von Clausewitz

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

C. S. Lewis

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.

Carnie Wilson

I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

Alan Lightman

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

Much of the world's weather is determined by what happens in the Antarctic, so understanding the Southern Ocean is a key to understanding global climate.

Jon Gruden

Matt's lower back flared up, ... We think he'll be OK. Whether or not he starts, we'll determine that later in the week.

Tommy Amaker

One possession here or there was going to determine this game for either team. Dee's three-point play late was somewhat of a dagger, but he's done that a few times.

Jacque Vaughn

One play like that, even if it's a five point swing, shouldn't determine the outcome of the game.

No one is excluded. But at this point, we haven't determined which individuals we want before the committee.

My great grandmother was feisty. She was determined to be around forever.

My grandparents instilled in me that hard work and determination are keys to your success. I think the students need to learn that in the school system.

Matt Millen

Maybe it took me a while to really understand that. But I do understand it now, and if anything, you're more resolute and more determined and more, to be honest with you, downright ticked off to get this thing done.

Ann Veneman

Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact on the market. At this point it's too early to determine how much.