Selected determination quotes

1. Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

2. There's always a way. Where there's a will there is a way. You have to believe.

3. Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

4. 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.

5. I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

6. Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!

7. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

8. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

9. I have not yet begun to fight!

10. You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

11. Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

12. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

13. I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

14. Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

15. It matters if you just don't give up.

16. Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

17. What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

18. We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

19. Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

20. How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre.' 'Give up your foolish dream Steve.' But they forgot something. I have to win.

21. Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

22. If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

23. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

24. Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say 'No.' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible. One may be wholeheartedly eager to do something which is as easy as falling off a log; and yet it is impossible.

25. I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

26. Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate one jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up, and steer Right onward.

27. Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

28. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, 'All right, then, I'll GO to hell.'

29. In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

30. Well I won't back down, no I won't back down. You could stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.

31. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.' We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

32. Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt: We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire... Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

33. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

34. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

35. I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself...yeah right.

36. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. [laughter] The lady's not for turning.

37. Defeat-I do not recognise the meaning of the word!

38. Failure is impossible.

39. The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can work away at any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

40. My Unstoppable Determination for His Holiness. 'Whether it means life or death-it makes no difference!' (see Philippians 1:21 ). Paul was determined that nothing would stop him from doing exactly what God wanted. But before we choose to follow God's will, a crisis must develop in our lives. This happens because we tend to be unresponsive to God's gentler nudges. He brings us to the place where He asks us to be our utmost for Him and we begin to debate. He then providentially produces a crisis where we have to decide- for or against. That moment becomes a great crossroads in our lives. If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably

41. My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!

42. I leave this rule for others when I'm dead Be always sure you're right - THEN GO AHEAD!

43. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it soon or late. What obstacle can stay the mighty force Of the sea seeking river in its course, Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

44. Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

45. I intend to live forever, or die trying.

46. We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

47. If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

48. I don't know where it's going, but I'm sticking with it!

49. Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

50. 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.

51. Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.

52. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

53. We must not obstinately contend against circumstances, but rather let us obey them. We have many projects in life but little determination.

54. I leave it to your discretion to strike or not, but the American colors must not be pulled down over my head today.

55. 'And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned. '

56. The best way out is always through.

57. If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes Will keep my talk from getting overwise, I'm not the one for putting off the proof. Let it be overwhelming, off a roof And round a corner, blizzard snow for dust, And blind me to a standstill if it must.

58. Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

59. I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.

60. It is important that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world.

61. The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

62. I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

63. NEVER GIVE A INCH!

64. Persevere