Determination Quotes - Page 33

• You cannot have that attitude of where I am going to tuck my tail between my legs and go home. You have to keep going back for more. That's why cycling is a very competitive sport. You have to have determination and drive to train hard and put forth a good effort.

  Robin Farina

  Sports, Attitude, Home

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• We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.

  Faye J Crosby

  Real, Path, Overcoming

  Faye J. Crosby (1991). “Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families”, Free Pr

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• The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Strength, Character

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• Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this life you wanna go.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Life, Vehicle, This Life

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• The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.

  David van Dantzig

  Simple, Squares, Circles

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• If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination

  Nigel Worthington

  Real, Commitment, Ifs

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• Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Relentless, Satyagraha, Search For Truth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Long, Soldier

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Heart, Self

  Source: espressostalinist.com

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• It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

  Albert Bandura

  Apathy, Doe, Outcomes

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• I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Talent, Hundred

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Teeth, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.

  Walter Cronkite

  Thinking, Office, Harry Truman

  Source: www.midtod.com

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• When you hit a certain spot you Sprint no matter how you feel inside or what your co-runner thinks. You just go! In training as a nickel, you sprint because you need to sprint! You just do it! In racing people see it and call it courage, but it is attitude; determination; duty.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and down four flights of stairs at 5 am to practice my turns in front of the candle light when others are asleep. I felt like that I had climbed many tall mountains and made so many impossible dreams come true through sheer determination, perseverance, passion, self conviction and belief.

  Li Cunxin

  Dream, Perseverance, Passion

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, School, Loss

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• Determination is number one! You have to be trained physically. You have to have a good mental attitude - wanting it and enjoying the thrill of going fast. There is a certain level of aggression with competing at professional racing level but you have to control it as it is a high reaction, fast sport.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Attitude, Numbers

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some things that might help you on the way. If you've got enthusiasm, determination and you love your sport - why shouldn't you be doing my job?

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Jobs, Couple

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by praise or censure, friendship or calumny, nor of being drawn from my purpose by any personal altercation; and the man who cannot do this, is not fit for a public character.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Men, Political

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.214, e-artnow

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• America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Rights, Self, Expression

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• Technology enables last mile delivery. Blending it with the will and determination to deliver, Gujarat has experienced the true power of e-governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, True Power, India

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• I suggest the greatest challenge to Christians in the business world is within - making the heart determination (simply put, the choice) to live by God's principles and sticking with it; making the commitment to serving Christ and mankind with our efforts, our gifts and our knowledge.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Heart, Commitment

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.

  Bernardino Leon

  Strong, Government, Support

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• Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

  Booker T. Washington

  Waiting

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• Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

  Charles M. Blow

  Destiny, Leader, World

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