Determined Quotes

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

Time, Bad, Focused

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
Boris Johnson

Why, Honest, Progress

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams

Home, Future, School

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

History, Freedom, Sacrifice

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza

Nature, Alone, Free

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
Baruch Spinoza

Long, Him, Cannot

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
Arlen Specter

Success, Money, Great

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
Marilyn French

Person, Find, Another

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
Buffalo Bill

Another, Plan, Escape

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
David Mamet

Government, Black, Law

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
David Mamet

Work, Family, Person

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Robert Schumann

Respect, Play, Place

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
Theodore Bikel

Give, Fighting, Chance

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
Brad Pitt

Life, Dad, Father

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.
Rick Santorum

Work, School, Children

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.
Wilma Rudolph

Life, Trying, Matter

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold MacMillan

Government, Down, Two

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
Iain Duncan Smith

Work, Family, Time

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
Anthony Wayne

Men, Free, Officers

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel Gompers

Long, Wrong, Order

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

Seems, Sound, Trumpet

A good teacher is a determined person.
Gilbert Highet

Good, Teacher, Person

It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
Rachel McAdams

Change, Young, Wanted

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
Arthur Scargill

Strength, Feeling, Union

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
Rahm Emanuel

End, Focus, Political

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
Lucy Powell

Home, Government, Away

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
Elia Kazan

Life, Together, Place

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.
Leona Lewis

Amazing, Hard, Working

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
Tony Kushner

Politics, Gay, Fact

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