If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
Sam Waterston

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Jose Saramago

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Dorothy Thompson

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
Emmet Fox

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim Rohn

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Oswald Chambers

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Charlotte Whitton

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
Leigh Steinberg

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.
Judy Collins

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
Ellsworth Huntington

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale