Best 490 quotes in «determined quotes» category

God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.

God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.

Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

He's such a great kid and such a determined kid, and he's so strong.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish.

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

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

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.

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

I am strong, determined, impulsive, happy, and emotional.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.