Term Quotes - Page 17

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

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

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

Fortune befriends the bold.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

I can't control the naysayers. I can control my attitude and work ethic and determination and that's what I'm focused on now.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.

Anything is possible as long as you're focused, determined and you really want to do it.

If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

What we value determines what we do.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.