Top 1200 Self-Determination Quotes & Sayings

We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

We have got to recognize the Mashpee tribe, their sovereignty, and their self-determination.

I am committed to furthering the self-determination of Indian communities but without terminating the special relationship between the Federal Government and the Indian people. I am strongly opposed to termination. Self-determination means that you can decide the nature of your tribe's relationship with the Federal Government within the framework of the Self-Determination Act, which I signed in January of 1975.

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

I'm especially honored that The Black Gents will debut Off-Broadway and pay tribute to The Tuskegee Airmen and other ancestors of that time who have embodied excellence, self-determination, and self-discipline.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

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

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

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.

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-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.

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

Zionism, like other self-determination movements.

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.

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

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope, and therefore what might be described as "solidarity".

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Obviously, the United States' own founding principles are self-determination. And I think what the United States and our allies want to do is to enable the Syrian people to make that determination. You know, we've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and - and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and spiritual limitations when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and determination are his only means to betterment. Runners get promoted only through self-conquest.

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

You just have to have heart, passion, determination and self-belief.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

Let the Third World get some self-determination. Let the Nicaraguans make their own mistakes.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Determination. No matter what field you're in, determination will surely get you to the top.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

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

The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations.

Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

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

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person. Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. Should temporary setbacks afflict us, a very significant part of our struggle for self-discipline is the determination and the courage to try again....Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal, and self-discipline will surely be required if you are to achieve it.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

We are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.

In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood and live in the light of truth, not by external norms but by reasoned and reflective self-determination. The inward teacher is the living core of our lives that is addressed and evoked by any education worthy of the name.

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.

Freedom is self-determination.

If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.

Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

Do you really think that the Catalans will end their struggle for their right of self-determination because of a legal decision?