Determined Quotes - Page 17

• A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Death, Men, Dying

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• You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'

  Morgan Freeman

  Beautiful, Death, Two

  "Fictional character: Carter Chambers". "The Bucket List", 2007.

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• Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others.

  James Gobbo

  Leadership, Roles, Casts

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• When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place of Positive Energy - then that which is 'negative energy' simply can't mix with you. It defies Law. If you are very strong and clear about your positive wanting, and feeling it, then 'bad' things simply cannot get in. Colds can't get in, car accidents can't get in, anything that you are not wanting cannot be your personal experience.

  Esther Hicks

  Strong, Law, Car

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• Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Morning, Dawn

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• India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But we are determined to be part of the solution to the problem.

  Manmohan Singh

  Energy, India, Industrialization

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• Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as determined as any terrestrial corporate frontman to prevent a successful conclusion to the climate talks. How I know? Because every time anyone gets together to try to prevent global climate breakdown, He swaths the rich, densely habited parts of the world with snow and ice, while leaving obscurer places to cook.

  George Monbiot

  Running, Successful, Ice

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• There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Two, Giving

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• So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Mean, Men

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• I try and intellectualize a lot, which she does as well obviously. She's very determined, I am as well. I like to think that I am very loyal in the same way that she is. Bit of a feminist in the same way that she is. I will speak my mind in the same way that she does.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Kissing, Thinking

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• I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Acting

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• Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.

  C. Everett Koop

  Children, Memorable, Important

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• I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life

  Ewan McGregor

  Children, Unicef

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• The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us in our determined pursuit-a living democracy?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Trust, Giving Up, Home

  Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Smell, Southern

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• While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Discipline, Risk

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• I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

  George Orwell

  Attitude, Writing, Emotional

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Work, Mistake, Care

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.178

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• I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life. We cannot support any act of killing; no killing can be justified. But not to kill is not enough ... If in your thinking you allow the killing to go on, you also break this precept. We must be determined not to condone killing, even in our minds.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Support, Mind

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• It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but rather that He inaugurated a religious movement adapted, or to be adapted, to different times and different places.

  Pope Pius X

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

  George W. Bush

  Choices, Community, Democracy

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Brother, Book

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

  Francis Fukuyama

  Desire, Prosperity, Economics

  Francis Fukuyama (1995). “Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity”, Free Pr

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• But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye by different routes, either exactly or very nearly in the same direction, the appearance or disappearance of various colours is determined by the greater or less difference in the lengths of the paths.

  Thomas Young

  Eye, Science, Differences

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• Weather patterns over the next 20 or 30 years are going to be determined by the amount of CO2 that is up there now

  John Beddington

  Years, Weather, Next

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