Determined Quotes - Page 37

• Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Closest

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Law of the Inner Circle: Lesson 11 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Height, Pinnacle, Breadth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.310, Library of America

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• Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Humility, World, Holiness

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• You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

  Frank Shorter

  Training, Mind, Body

  Frank Shorter, Marc Bloom (1984). “Olympic gold: a runner's life and times”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Men, Brain, Study

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• In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

  Rick Warren

  Country, Forgiving, Succeed

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• The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.

  Orison S. Marden

  Strong, Cutting, Men

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• It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

  Andy Stanley

  Matter, Ifs, Havens

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• You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.

  Helen Reddy

  Goal, Finals, Causes

  Song: I am Woman

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• In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.

  Daniel Dennett

  Running, May, Fields

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• How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf people, and now it's me. Well, I am determined to become the most Delightful Deaf Old Lady that ever existed and I am practicing to that end.

  Susan Hale

  Believe, Realize Things, People

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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• The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.

  Sybil Leek

  Watches, Spectators, Willing

  Sybil Leek (1972). “ESP--The magic within you”, Abelard-Schuman Ltd

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• The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

  Lydia Lunch

  Powerful, Greed, Desire

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• God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Focus, Political

  "Road Map in the Back Seat?" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 27, 2003.

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• Coming out of indecisiveness and being determined is the pre condition for being called young.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Youth, Coming Out

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• The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.

  Al Gore

  Civilization, Prosperous Future, Healthy

  "Climate change report: 'The worst is yet to come' - as it happened" by Helen Davidson, Adam Vaughan, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.

  Paracelsus

  Art, Believe, Men

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• The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

  Paul Auster

  Moon, People, Swallowing

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.38, Penguin

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• Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.70, Commodius Vicus

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• The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Running, Track, Choices

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• Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

  Albert Camus

  Soul, Manage

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.41, Vintage

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• I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

  Steven Gerrard

  Dad, Building, Footballer

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

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• The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Hate, Emotional

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

  Atul Gawande

  Meaningful, Pain, Sleep

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.162, Profile Books

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  Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Trying, Easy, Certain

  "Dream the possible dream" Sheryl Sandberg, bluesky.chicagotribune.com. May 3, 2014.

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