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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.”

Ifs Morning Blessing Husband Evening Knees Self Determination Every Morning

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.”

Ideas Soul Lying Hate Opposites I Hate Individuality My Soul Trends Rebel Reverence Self Determination Imitation

Author:Clint Eastwood

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

People Want Should Self States United United States Determination Self Determination Deep Down

Author:Peter Camejo

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”

Ifs World Choices Stars Hurt This World Romantic Determination Faults Self Determination Hazel Grace Fault In Our Stars Hurting You

Author:John Green

“Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.”

Conventions Self Determination Listen To Yourself Power Of One

Book:The Power of One

Source: The Power of One

“Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.”

Life Inspirational Wish Normal Weakness Being Yourself Self Determination Hopscotch

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!”

Giving Trying Believe Dream Giving Up Determination Reaching Tonight Self Determination Believe In Me Never Giving Up Discouraging Don't Ever Give Up

Author:Mariah Carey

“Let every man be master of his time.”

Men Inspirational Motivational Time Masters Entrepreneur Every Man Self Determination Businessman

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we have waited for a mighty military victory, but we were defeated roundly; we have waited for outside powers (the United States or, in its time, the Soviet Union), but none came to our aid. The one thing we have not tried in all seriousness has been to rely on OURSELVES: until we do that with a full commitment to success there is no chance that we can advance towards self-determination and freedom from aggression.”

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

Inspirational Motivational Happiness Causes Business Attitude Effects Amount Misery Positivity Tricks Miserable Self Determination Motivational Business Don Juan Happy Birthday Happy Girl Positive Business

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.”

Mind Happiness Change Born Simple Attitude Circumstances Determination Self Determination Being Happy Great Happiness Personal Happiness Simple Happiness

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.”

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”

Source: The Man and the Book Nobody Knows

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

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Author:Coco Chanel

“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy the individual is born into a collective and it is "natural" and proper for him to behave as members of this collective are expected to behave. Expected by whom? Of course, by those individuals to whom, by the mysterious decrees of some mysterious agency, the task of determining the collective will and directing the actions of the collective has been entrusted.”

“Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.”

“I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.”

World Hard Wanted Hard Work Determination I Realized Self Determination Oysters

Author:Chris Evert

“Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.”

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Book:Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker

Source: Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker

“Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.”

Source: Civil Wars

“The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.”

“Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.”

Ifs Mean Self Political Politics Poverty Politician Disease Determination Meetings Self Determination Sovereignty Slogans No Hope Mockery Illiteracy

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Censorship defeats the right to self determination.”

Self Determination Defeat Censorship Self Determination

Author:Billy Forbes

“We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.”

“Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.”

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“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.”

Self Light Names Understanding Education Teacher Our Lives Determination Worthy Core Self Determination Falsehood Inward Norm

Book:The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.”

“When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.”

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.”

People Two Self States Goal Determination Ultimate Israel Recognition Mutual Self Determination Palestinian Judaism Palestine Homeland Ultimate Goal

Author:Barack Obama

“When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.”

Self Steps Rights Serious Ready Return Determination West Israel East Grants Self Determination Palestinian Recognise Jerusalem Settlement Hamas

Author:Khaled Mashal

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.”

Mean Self Women Determination Thrown Self Determination Baggage Overboard

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

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

Self Determination Socialism Self Determination Eugenics

Author:Karl Liebknecht

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

People Self Black Term Determination Black People Self Determination Autonomy Integrated American Society

Author:Gerda Lerner

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

People Self Use Law Order Fighting Force Achieve Determination Independence International Self Determination International Law

Author:Norman Finkelstein

“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.”

Self Government Political Term Steps Determination Vote Historical Self Determination Self-government Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Dick Thornburgh

“The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.”

Self America Hours Millions Demand Determination Finals Latin Self Determination Colonialism New Life Asia Latin America

Book:Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

Source: Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution

“Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.”

Knows Long Self Problem Promise Solutions Determination Self Determination

Author:Bill Crawford

“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.”

Ifs Knows World Self States Decision Journey Determination Okay Constant Definitions Evolve Self Determination Navigate Flux Audacity

Book:Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Source: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

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

Self Hard Happens Creativity Hard Work Determination Self Determination Changing Your Life Sophia

Book:#Girlboss

Source: #Girlboss

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

Humans Self America Desire Born Determination Dignity Independence Longing Self Determination Human Dignity Personal Dignity

Author:Maurice Saatchi

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

Mean Self Determination Independence Self Determination Autonomy

Author:Jalal Talabani

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

Believe Self I Believe Situation Determination Self Determination Kosovo

Author:Eliot Engel

“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.”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.”

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author

“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.”

Ifs Mean Self Desire Interest Doubt Determination Oppression No Doubt Self Determination Worthless

Author:Amir Butler

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

Should Self Names Religious Determination Divided Self Determination Ideological Fervor

Author:Rita Dove

“After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.”

People Years Firsts Self States House United United States Hundred Determination Moved Meaningful Self Determination Representatives Routes House Of Representatives

Author:Dick Thornburgh

“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.”

People Believe Self I Believe Determination South I Believe In Regions Self Determination South Africa

Author:Mangosuthu Buthelezi