I Am Determined Quotes - Page 2

• Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation in Africa. I am determined to ensure that Africa's next generation of entrepreneurs have the platform they need to turn their entrepreneurial aspirations into sustainable businesses that will drive economic growth and job creation across Africa.

  Tony Elumelu

  Jobs, Keys, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Tony Elumelu from Mar 27, 2017

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• I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.

  William J. Clinton

  Past, America, Bridges

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• I have added some ploughmen to the landscape form the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and warm the picture a little more if I can... but I look to do a great deal better in future. I am determined to finish a small picture in the spot for every one I intend to make in future. But this I have always talked about but never yet done - I think however my mind is more settled and determined than ever on this point.

  John Constable

  Thinking, Mind, Trying

  Letter to John Dunthorne (14 February 1814), as quoted in "Constable", p. 151, 1993.

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• Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Hurt, Determination, Today

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• Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

  Barack Obama

  President, Reform, Needs

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• I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, Progress, Firsts

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Country, Mean, Fighting

  Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. September 9, 2003.

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• I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

  Sasha Grey

  Determined, Fantasy, Commodity

  "Sasha Grey, The Dirtiest Girl in the World: The Story Behind the Story". www.rollingstone.com. April 29, 2009.

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• I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

  Nikola Tesla

  Race, Years, Vivid Imagination

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• People have been accusing me of that ever since I got involved in politics. Some would just like to stick a pin through me like insect researchers do a dried butterfly and then say: Look, there's the banker who doesn't like people. If that were the case, I would not be here. I am not arrogant to the French - I am determined.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Butterfly, People, Arrogant

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• No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!

  Thomas Gage

  Blood, Determined, Command

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• But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Countries Of The World, Important

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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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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• I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

  Brian Blessed

  Moon, Space, Training

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• As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Jobs, Opportunity, Goal

  President Gerald R. Ford's address at a Tulane University Convocation, www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov. April 23, 1975.

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• I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his indebtedness. Since I am willing to go beyond all limitations on this, I think we should be able to select a candidate and a party who knows the facts of political life....If we select Nixon, then he, I know for sure knows the facts of life.

  Howard Hughes

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Men, Support, Political

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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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• I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life. We cannot support any act of killing; no killing can be justified. But not to kill is not enough ... If in your thinking you allow the killing to go on, you also break this precept. We must be determined not to condone killing, even in our minds.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Support, Mind

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• I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

  Neelie Kroes

  Law, Competition, Use

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• I am responsible for what I see. I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. I could see peace instead of THIS. The past is over it can touch me not. This instant is the only time there is. Today I will judge nothing that occurs. I am not the victim of the world I see. I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. I am determined to see things differently. I am never upset for the reason I think. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. All that I give I give to myself.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Hurt, Giving Up

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• Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Animal, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.82, Parallax Press

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• I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

  Nigella Lawson

  Children, Should Have, People

  "Nigella Lawson hits back at claims she plans to cut children out of will". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 3, 2008.

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• I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

  Jean Moulin

  Long, Information, Determined

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