Best 490 quotes in «determined quotes» category

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

Everything that happens is determined by God.

Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

Failure will not stop you if you are determined to succeed.

Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca

Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.

Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.

From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.

From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of budget deficits but also the domestic and foreign policies.

Forget nerds on Facebook. You're never gonna persuade 'em. They're never gonna like Donald Trump. They're always gonna razz you about it. They're losers. Do not allow your happiness to be determined and defined by what these people on Facebook say.

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 strong, determined, impulsive, happy, and emotional.

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

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