Top 1200 Courage And Determination Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

It's just determination, working hard, and keeping my feet on the ground in training and keep on proving people wrong.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.

Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of logic and reason.

A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

I've always wanted to get involved in beauty and skincare, and I'm so grateful that I'm able to because of hard work and determination.

Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an accepted element of the locker room culture and homophobic language a coach’s motivational tool, we can never dismiss the courage it takes for an athlete-on any level-to be openly gay. Bobby Blair may not be a household name, but his journey-from frightened collegiate athlete to empowered advocate-is one that has an important lesson for anyone who believes in the unifying power of sports.

COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.

The passion, toughness and determination that you display on a daily basis is an inspiration for myself and for all of my teammates and all the people that wear 'Cleveland' across their chest.

I like Shah Rukh for his wit, intelligence, grit and determination, and Akshay for the way he interacts with people.

You will find a common dichotomy in life. Those who don't have vision or determination, and refuse to dream the impossible, are always in the majority.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

The voices of economic freedom, personal responsibility, and self-determination are virtually nonexistent in Hispanic communities and media.

I'm not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.

Those who have the courage to dare will perish. Those who have the courage not to dare will live.

Through hard work, passion and determination my teammates and I transformed TFC and made it one of the best clubs in MLS and in North America.

If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

The American people and our allies around the world can rely on CIA's vigilance, excellence, and determination to proudly serve.

There are no magic wands, no hidden tracks, and no secret handshakes that can bring you immediate success, but with time, energy and determination you can get there.

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Joe Gibbs helped define what the Washington Redskins stand for - integrity, hard work, determination, winning and championships.

The contribution of my dad towards women's wrestling in Haryana is immense and his vision and determination have shaped several young careers.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.

Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination - there's just nothing like it in any sport.

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

Every morning during meditation, I prepare myself for the whole day's struggle. Holy Communion assures me that I will win the victory; and so it is. I fear the day when I do not receive Holy Communion. This bread of the Strong gives me all the strength I need to carry on my mission and the courage to do whatever the Lord asks of me. The courage and strength that are in me are not of me, but of Him who lives in me - it is the Eucharist.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.