Determined Quotes
1429 quotes by 1137 authors
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very…
— Hannah Arendt
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in…
— Aristotle
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by…
— Abigail Adams
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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a…
— Evan Bayh
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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…
— Jane Addams
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
— Aneurin Bevan
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
— Theodore Bikel
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
— Buffalo Bill
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the…
— Wade Boggs
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My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and…
— Richard Branson
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President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
— John O. Brennan
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President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us…
— John O. Brennan
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The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
— George W. Bush
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why…
— Vince Cable
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When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
— Jimmy Carter
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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