I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

I don’t believe in a God. I don’t believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

Parents, determine to make your children obey you, though it may cost you a lot of trouble, and cost them many tears. Let there be no questioning, and reasoning, and disputing, and delaying. When you give them a command, let them clearly see that you expect them to do it.

Nothing is black and white. There are no universal standards that determine what’s good and what’s evil. It’s subjective.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality

I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.

People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?

It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God.

The reason why a bad philosophy leads to such hell is that it is what you think and want and treasure and foster in times of preparation that determine what you do in the pinch, and that it takes an error to father a sin.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

I have unemployed my girlfriend. She had a job working for a cardiologist and now she can hang out, put her feet up, buy all the things she wants, have a nice breakfast with you and me in the Four Seasons. Any fights in families like mine come from everyone worrying about money. I’m taking all those worries away. That makes me feel happy, makes me really proud of what I do.

Golf isn’t a sport, it’s a game. I’m not saying it’s not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it’s not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

The truly important events on the outside are not the trends. They are changes in the trends. These determine ultimately success or failure of an organization and its efforts. Such changes, however, have to be perceived; they cannot be counted, defined, or classified. The classifications still produce the expected figures – as they did for the Edsel. But the figures no longer correspond to actual behavior.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Someone else’s action should not determine your response.

Each man’s hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

And yet women-good women–frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does NOT determine the value of what we have done.

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former – Being – be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter – time – be addressed as a being.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived; it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced

Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Only the limits of your imaginations can determine how far you go in life.

The picture that we have of ourselves — our self-concept — will always determine how we respond to life.