| SURVIVAL
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
--Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
--Jane Wagner
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
--W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
--Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.
--Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
--Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
--W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
--Wendell Berry
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
--Jane Wagner
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
--John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
DETERMINATION
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
--Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
Will is power.
--German Proverb
I will go anywhere—provided it be forward.
--David Livingstone (1813–1873)
If you don’t invest much, defeat doesn’t hurt and winning is not exciting.
--Dick Vermeil
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
--Tommy Lasorda (1927– ) |
DETERMINATION
1 Cor. 2:2 (New Living Translation)
For I decided to concentrate only on Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.
(1) Human determination
“To resolve,” “decide.” This is the primary meaning of the word and it is also the one that is the most common. In the New Testament the Greek word κρίνω, krı́no, is translated “determine,” and it has the above meaning (Acts 20:16; 25:25; 1 Cor 2:2). The word occurs frequently in the Old Testament with this meaning (see Ex 21:22; 1 Sam 20:7, 9, 33).
(2) God's determination
“To decree,” “ordain,” “mark out.” The Greek word that is rendered “determine” with this meaning is horı́zo.
The Hebrew term ḥarac is translated “determine” with the above meaning; as “his days are determined” (Job 14:5); “a destruction is determined” (Isa 10:22); “desolations are determined” (Dan 9:26). The Hebrew term mishpaṭ, which means “judgment” or “sentence,” is translated “determination” in Zeph 3:8.
A man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find, creates them.
--William Ellery Channing (1780–1842)
A thick skin is a gift from God.
--Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious self-idolatry because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
--Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)
Recognizing that our cause is, and will be, combated by mighty, determined and relentless forces, we will, trusting in him who is the Prince of Peace, meet argument with argument, misjudgment with patience, denunciations with kindness, and all our difficulties and dangers with prayer.
--Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839–1898)
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath . . . or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God’s help.
--Robert Harold Schuller (1926– )
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