Top 100 Determined Men Quotes
#1. We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less ... This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
A. Philip Randolph
#2. Big houses are not build by big or powerful men but rather by ambitious and determined men. Their achievements make them big/powerful men
Amen Muffler
#3. The two men looked at each other for a moment. Then Sonja's father nodded. And Ove nodded curtly back. And then they rose to their feet, objective and determined, in the way two men might behave if they had just agreed to go and kill a third man.
Henning Koch
#4. If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire.
Phil Pringle
#5. When man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
E. E. Cummings
#6. There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.
Frederick Russell Burnham
#7. He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#8. If Lucien is determined to have her, he won't let her be sensible. That's the entire point behind seduction. Men use passion to rob gentle bred ladies of their good sense."
-Cedric.
His Wicked Seduction
Lauren Smith
#9. Every man is destined to win. Whether he wins or not is determined by whether or not he aligns himself with God's will.
Artur Pawlowski
#10. Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.
L. Ron Hubbard
#11. For together with those who themselves being normal, had long put intellects above bodies, were writers, painters, musicians and scholars, men and women who, set apart from their birth, had determined to hack out a niche in existence.
Radclyffe Hall
#12. The arc of circling bodies is determined by the length of their tether, said the judge. Moons,coins,men.
Cormac McCarthy
#13. We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.
Frederic Bastiat
#14. In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
George Eliot
#15. Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.
James Dobson
#16. There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.
Peter Roebuck
#17. No matter if the enemy has thousands of men, there is fulfillment in simply standing them off and being determined to cut them all down, starting from one end.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#18. One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.
Martin Niemoller
#19. A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
William Hazlitt
#20. There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.
Orison Swett Marden
#21. Battered and bruised but still fighting for dominance his was not the selfish petty pride that made bullies of lesser men but rather the quiet
determined dignity that turned men into heroes and made heroes crawl back to their feet from the bitter dust of defeat and stand tall once more.
C.L. Wilson
#22. I am determined not to assume the sacerdotal office, for I have seen many men whom I have regarded as persons of good character and liberal dispositions, degenerate into avarice, sloth, and dissipation, in consequence of their introduction into the priesthood
Poggio Bracciolini
#23. Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.
Mario Stinger
#24. Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
Anthony Wayne
#25. We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#27. No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.
Daniel O'Connell
#28. A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.
John D. Rockefeller
#29. Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#30. The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
J.G. Holland
#31. Every man's measurement is determined by his responses when he is on his knees before God.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#32. The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards. The
Eric Metaxas
#33. Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#34. Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.
William Herndon
#35. In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
Franz Boas
#36. We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.
Louis Kronenberger
#37. The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
Bill Courtney
#38. A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.
E. M. Forster
#39. Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
Baruch Spinoza
#40. Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
Baruch Spinoza
#42. It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
#43. Songwriting is determined by me, man ... just me. I write from real life, you ...
T-Pain
#44. He demonstrated that there was no such thing as free will, since men's creative impulses were determined, as all else, by the economic structure of the epoch in which they lived.
Ayn Rand
#45. We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. Well-determined centers of revery are means of communication between men who dream as surely as well-defined concepts are means of communications between men who think.
Gaston Bachelard
#47. there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction
Glenn Cooper
#48. The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.
Orison S. Marden
#49. Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Mary Astell
#50. And they have the gall to call it a law for public safety! We've got no cars, no gasoline, no guns, no men . . . It's clear they're determined to promote criminality. Enough. What can we do?" "If
Andrea Camilleri
#51. Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening.
P. J. O'Rourke
#52. She was a wind on the ocean. She moved men, but the helm determined the port.
Zora Neale Hurston
#53. Bandishment will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or how soever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men!
Josiah Quincy
#54. Men are wretched by necessity, and determined to believe themselves wretched by accident.
Giacomo Leopardi
#55. The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
Confucius
#56. Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#57. In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
John Lancaster Spalding
#58. The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
Michael Faraday
#59. The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.
Derek R. Audette
#60. Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
Franz Kafka
#61. Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.
Oswald Chambers
#62. No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
Clarence Darrow
#63. among men and not among angels; among men as intelligent, as determined and as independent as myself, who, not agreeing with me, do not choose to yield up their opinions to mine. Mutual concessions is our only resort, or mutual hostilities."*
Thom Hartmann
#64. They must be cool but determined ... he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
David McCullough
#65. The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#66. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle
#68. A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
Lord Acton
#69. He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#70. Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
Paracelsus
#71. Men believe themselves to have free will because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined. - BARUCH SPINOZA
Cris Evatt
#72. Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just ... wonder.
Dodie Smith
#73. I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#74. If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
Esther Peterson
#75. The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
John F. Kennedy
#76. If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
Margaret Mead
#77. Single-minded, determined, and intelligent organizational talent probably can create an effective army from any group of men.
Trevor N. Dupuy
#78. All great men face challenges in the pursuit of their goals. However, the challenges did not deter them for pushing forward and realizing their goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)
Frank Chase Jr
#80. Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.
Gioconda Belli
#81. For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.
William Batchelder Greene
#82. There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.
Winston Churchill
#83. A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
John Calvin
#85. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.
E. M. Forster
#86. The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.
Jacques Derrida
#87. One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.
M. Carey Thomas
#88. With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
William Morris
#89. Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make
George Bernard Shaw
#90. Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#91. A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
Bertrand Russell
#92. I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#93. That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.
Theodor Adorno
#94. There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
Norm MacDonald
#95. The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.
John Eidsmoe
#96. It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#97. If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.
John Wesley
#98. God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!
Napoleon Hill
#99. The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.
Gordon MacQuarrie
#100. If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
John F. Kennedy
