Determined Quotes - Page 5

• The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Twitter post from Jul 28, 2015

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• Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

  Herbert Spencer

  Feelings, Intuition, Opinion

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 4, ch. 30, 8

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• The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.

  Jon Stewart

  Men, Years, Looks

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• A good teacher is a determined person

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Good Teacher, Persons

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• The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  People, Political, Referendums

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• The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Nature, Animal, Cities

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• Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

  Wade Boggs

  Life, Attitude, Happens

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• Beginners are many; finishers are few.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Artist, Journey

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

  Confucius

  Life, Philosophical, Fate

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Mistake, Failure, Learning

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• The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

  Elia Kazan

  People, Together, Scene

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• He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sound, Tin, Modesty

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• I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

  Theodore Bikel

  Fighting, Giving, Chance

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• My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

  Buffalo Bill

  Firsts, Plans

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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• The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

  George W. Bush

  Shadow, Allies, United States

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Experience, Certain

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• We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Long, People, Choices

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• No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

  Michael Polanyi

  Law, Inanimate Objects, Chemistry

  Michael Polanyi (1974). “Scientific thought and social reality: essays”, Intl Universities Pr Inc

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• I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

  Brian Epstein

  World, Horror, This World

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

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• I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

  George Crumb

  Littles

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• Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

  Paul Twitchell

  Spiritual, Attitude, Infinite

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