Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.

Karl Barth

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

Julius Nyerere

Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it will, therefore, increase the effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to implement for our development. My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.

Kanye West

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

June Jordan

... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.

Patrick Roy

Peter Forsberg's skills and determination made him one of the most powerful forwards in the NHL during the best years of his career. Hearing of his retirement is sad news but one day every athlete has to come to this decision. He should be very proud of all he accomplished throughout his career.

Paulo Freire

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

Martha Beck

The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

Oswald Chambers

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

Oswald Chambers

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

Oswald Chambers

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

Paul Ryan

It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

Pat Cash

There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

Nhat Hanh

We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing.

Nhat Hanh

Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.

Joe Morton

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Martin Heidegger

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

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.

Michael Kirby

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