Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Player

To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.

George Jackson

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

Chris Howard

Your destiny is forged in the fires of your determination

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.

George W. Bush

And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.

George Steinbrenner

Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.

Gene Tierney

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

Frederick Douglass

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

Farrah Fawcett

But I must never forget how blessed I have been. God has given me gifts and happiness, beyond any of my simple desires. My deepest desire now is to simply live... So with hope and determination, I'd hold on and go on.

Ezra Taft Benson

Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

Francis Crick

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

Erwin McManus

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

Erwin McManus

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.

Helen Keller

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Helen Keller

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Cassandra Clare

We needn't talk about Tessa if you don't want to, you know." "It's not Tessa." This was true. Will hadn't been thinking of Tessa. He was getting good at not thinking about her, really; all it took was determination and practice.

George Eliot

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

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.

Martina Hingis

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

Our determination is to get back on it,

They're not freaking out, though, and I'm impressed with how neighbor is helping neighbor. I see resilience and determination.

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.

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.

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.

James Toney

It's all right here. And heart and determination. I'm 37 years old and I feel like I'm 27. I'm getting better with age.

It's not money, man. It's just determination and aspirations.

For me, it all comes down to the determination of the critter. It's a matter of environment.