2,733 Quotes About Determination

This election was not the end. What is important now is to realize the aspirations of the people and march forward. We will do this with an inalterable determination to pursue reform.

The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcileable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honourable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.

Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly called 'an exceptionally serious crime,' and hope the Serbian government's pledge of full cooperation... is matched by a final accounting of their murder.

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

The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy the individual is born into a collective and it is "natural" and proper for him to behave as members of this collective are expected to behave. Expected by whom? Of course, by those individuals to whom, by the mysterious decrees of some mysterious agency, the task of determining the collective will and directing the actions of the collective has been entrusted.

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.