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 ~
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'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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
~By Patty Berg ~
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
~By Matt Blunt ~
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 ~
Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
~By George Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
~By Martin Bashir ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
~By Tommy Lasorda ~
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 ~
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
~By Abebe Bikila ~
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
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 ~
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 ~
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
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 ~
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
~By Denis Waitley ~
But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
~By Karl Liebknecht ~
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 ~
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
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 ~
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
~By Muammar al Gaddafi ~
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 ~
I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.
~By Carnie Wilson ~
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 ~
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
~By Channing Pollock ~
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
~By Gerry Adams ~
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 ~
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 ~
Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.
~By Dannii Minogue ~
Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
~By Loretta Young ~
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 ~
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~By Colin Powell ~
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.
~By Eliot Engel ~
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 ~
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
~By Howard Thurman ~
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 ~
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
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 ~
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
~By George Horace Lorimer ~
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 ~
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
~By Og Mandino ~
I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.
~By Paul Biya ~
So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
~By Charles Simmons ~
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 ~
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.
~By Francis Crick ~
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
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 ~
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 ~
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
~By Xun Zi ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
~By Pat Cash ~
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 ~
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 ~
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
~By George Gillespie ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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