Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm happy about those numbers, ... but the real determination is, what do we learn? Are we smarter when we do it next time?

Kiki Smith

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

Karl Liebknecht

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

Karl Marx

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

This was a very good team win, very exciting. Our guys showed a lot of heart and a lot of determination even when we were down. They didn't throw in the towel.

This was a total team effort today. I was so pleased with how our starters played in the first half. We played with a lot of determination and we played hard, it?s nice to see.

It was great to get her back on the field again. We missed having her in the midfield. Her speed and determination will help us in the second half of the season.

Lamon Brewster

It was just my willpower, my determination. I had to wait a long time,

There was a real determination from that group of seniors that was left behind, so to speak, to do something special.

Gerald R. Ford

I am committed to furthering the self-determination of Indian communities but without terminating the special relationship between the Federal Government and the Indian people. I am strongly opposed to termination. Self-determination means that you can decide the nature of your tribe's relationship with the Federal Government within the framework of the Self-Determination Act, which I signed in January of 1975.

Gerald R. Ford

The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.

Giles Foden

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Paul Gauguin

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.

Learned Hand

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Marian Wright Edelman

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.

Miyamoto Musashi

Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things

Pierre Loti

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

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.

Kristin Armstrong

When it comes down to it, determination has a greater impact than giftedness.

Margaret Thatcher

I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.