I Am Determined Quotes

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.
- John Adams

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]
- Jane Austen

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.
- Jane Austen

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not in my nature...The men think us incapable of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show them the difference.
- Jane Austen

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.
- Jane Austen

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
- Theodore Bikel

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
- William Shakespeare

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
- Jacqueline Cochran

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.
- Sebastian Coe

Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.
- Dave Eggers

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.
- Brian Epstein

Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.
- Barack Obama

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.
- Nhat Hanh

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.
- Geoff Hoon

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
- Boris Johnson

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
- Charles Lamb

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.
- Jean Moulin

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
- James Otis

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch... I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers... do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington