There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.
~By Amir Butler ~
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
~By George Gillespie ~
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
~By Channing Pollock ~
Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
As I assume my responsibilities as your representative, I wish to assure you of my loyalty and devotions, as well of my determination to serve you and the people of Canada to the utmost of my abilities.
~By Romeo LeBlanc ~
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
~By Aiden Wilson Tozer ~
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.
~By Lincoln Ellsworth ~
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
~By Daniel Boone ~
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
~By George A. Sheehan ~
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
~By Peter Camejo ~
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
~By Horace Mann ~
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
~By Patty Berg ~
But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.
~By Dale Earnhardt ~
It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.
~By Henry Addington ~
I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.
~By Chuck Norris ~
When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
~By Joe Morton ~
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
~By Morton Hunt ~
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?
~By Pierre Loti ~
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
~By George Horace Lorimer ~
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
~By Johannes Vilhelm Jensen ~
There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
~By Pat Cash ~
At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
~By Olympia Snowe ~
Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
~By Bob Filner ~
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
~By Jesse Owens ~
They say love will find a way. I know determination will.
~By Ronnie Milsap ~
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
~By Muammar al Gaddafi ~
I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.
~By Carnie Wilson ~
Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
~By Martin Bashir ~
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
~By Les Brown ~
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
We didn't think we were a fourth-place team. For us to beat the first-place team in the West and the first-place team in the East shows the dedication and determination that we had.
~By Cobi Jones ~
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
~By George H. Mead ~
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
~By Barbara Deming ~
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
~By Alex Trebek ~
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
~By Denis Waitley ~
There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
~By Jack Johnson ~
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
~By Ralph Marston ~
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
~By George Bentham ~
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
~By Tommy Lasorda ~
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~By Colin Powell ~
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
~By Matt Blunt ~
To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.
~By Cordell Hull ~
But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
~By Henry James ~
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
~By Gail Devers ~
I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.
~By Eliot Engel ~
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
~By Gerry Adams ~
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
~By Loretta Young ~
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
~By Mario Andretti ~
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
~By Man Ray ~
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
~By Og Mandino ~
Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.
~By Renny Harlin ~
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
~By Charles Simmons ~
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.
~By Peter Arnett ~
Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
~By George Jackson ~
Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.
~By Javier Solana ~
To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
~By LeBron James ~
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
~By Learned Hand ~
Commitment and co-operation to overcome barriers and difficulties, and determination to achieve the standards of the EU as well as NATO membership, are and have always been the principal target.
~By Alfred Moisiu ~
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.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
~By Randy Johnson ~
If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.
~By Hortense Odlum ~
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
~By Dan Gable ~
I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.
~By Kristen Bell ~
We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
~By Warren Rudman ~
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