Quotes on Determine

Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that If you think you can, you can; and if you think you can’t – you’re right.

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.