Best 490 quotes in «determined quotes» category

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.

I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

I didn't choose to be gay. It would be more accurate to say that it was determined by nature.

If a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

I feel amazing. In my life right now, I have so much motivation. I am so hungry and so determined... I am young, I am healthy and I feel great - 42 is the new 32.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.

I follow my own head. And if Im determined to do something, then Ill make sure that I make it happen.

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get.

If you decide to run for the leadership, you have to go through it with the people you love. But you also have to protect them and I am determined to protect my mum.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.

If you are determined nothing can stop you from determining your dreams.

If you cant be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.

I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.

I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.

I'm an athlete who's very determined and I understand sacrifice.

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun.

Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy

I'm determined to stand whether God will deliver me or not.

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

I’m very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I’ll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I’ll do it.

In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

In my own house I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know. Although I had received no technical education I made myself master of chemistry and of the laboratory, which proved of lasting value.