Determination Quotes

We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

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

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

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.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

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

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.