Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Eszterhas

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

Erik Erikson

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

Emma Goldman

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

Emma Goldman

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

Emma Watson

I think that it is very important if you know what you want, understand where you are heading towards, and try your best to get it. It is only when we use our hearts to do it, and fall in love with what we are doing, then can we really get real determination.

John McCain

I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly called 'an exceptionally serious crime,' and hope the Serbian government's pledge of full cooperation... is matched by a final accounting of their murder.

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

Elbert Hubbard

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Abraham Lincoln

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

A. J. Foyt

Determination that just won't quit -- that's what it takes.

Neil Gaiman

Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. He could have stood in Mr Young.

Frank Hadden

As a proud and passionate Scot this is the ultimate honour and one that I am determined to enjoy,

Yakov Smirnoff

As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.

Duncan's steely determination has driven us to train much harder than we have in previous years. He's our secret weapon.

Bertrand Delanoe

Each experience has taught us something, and each disappointment has only served to reinforce our determination, ... We have always endeavored to improve our performance.

Due to illness and injuries, we ended up with just two substitutes to end the game. But our grit and determination pulled us through.

Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities over our nuclear ambitions and also protect our right.

Martina Hingis

Probably I was a little more determined, even more hungry.

Our determination is to get back on it,

Hosni Mubarak

This election was not the end. What is important now is to realize the aspirations of the people and march forward. We will do this with an inalterable determination to pursue reform.

They share our determination to prevail and to see this through. NATO equally recognizes an obligation to them.

They've been real determined to get back there.

Christopher Dodd

(Although) there's no existing evidence here that Karl Rove is about to be indicted ... the president has to make a determination as to whether or not he wants to be preoccupied with legal issues around the White House, ... Fox News Sunday.

They know it takes determination. We just need one more.

The mixture is yet to be finally determined.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

They don't show anything but strength and determination to do what they love. And the fact that we can be a part of that and share our experiences with theirs and come together with a positive message for young people ? that's special.

It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even Spring Training. He was gearing up for Opening Day. Our hope, and I think everyone's hope, would be it he could have through Spring Training, and then a determination be made.

It was determination and a lot of focus. We just learned from those mistakes of the past, where we let some of them slip away.

Gertrude Stein

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.