Determined Quotes - Page 2

• So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Long, Impossible

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• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Freedom, Animal

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• And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

  Janet Napolitano

  Patience, Commitment, Play

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• Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

  Chris Evert

  Hurt, Losing, Being The Best

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• Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

  Sebastian Coe

  Team, Effort, Hawks

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• The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

  Herbert Croly

  Promise, Literature, Individual

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Noble, Adherence

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• I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Stars, Wind, Might

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• Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

  David Douglass

  Facts

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• I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sacrifice, Taught Us, Lessons

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• I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

  Christine Lahti

  Winning, Way, Fighter

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• Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

  Arthur Keith

  Discovery, Agriculture, Groups

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Agreement, Matter, Fossils

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• There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

  Arthur Scargill

  Feelings, Unions, Size

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• Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

  Celia Green

  Requirements, Way, Done

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• I'm a very determined person.

  Kim Basinger

  Persons

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• I'm determined to be a diva.

  Lexa Doig

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• Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Chaos, Chaotic, Predictable

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• It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Morning, Failure

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• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are
  neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that
  those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will
  respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse
  for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to
  encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
  greater confidence than an armed man.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Men, Gun, Law

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

  Jose Saramago

  Names, Soul, Nameless

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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• Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

  Ellen Raskin

  Life, Blow, Self

  Ellen Raskin (2004). “The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.42, Penguin

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• Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it

  Drake

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

  Song: Successful, 2009

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