Quotes About Resolve

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.

Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it.

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.

I've never pulled out of a fight.

You can sit there and punch me in the head for three minutes straight, but I'm gonna figure it out. I always do. I just know that about myself.

You would have to go really crazy on me before I throw a punch.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

My purpose will not be denied.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

To our enemies - to our enemies - we will pursue you as only America can. You will fear us.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

I think it's important to know what you want to do and push forth with it.

It's just like, we know how to push ourselves to the max.

Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line.

I would push myself so much that in the end I would collapse and I would have to be admitted to hospital, I would pray to God to save me, promise that I would be more careful in future. And then I would do it all over again.

I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.

You have to push yourself.

After a level, it does not matter if you are capable to do 100 push-ups, but how to take action in a do-or-die situation - saving your country while on mission.

I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.

The only way you're going to make it is to have a hunger for success and a will to win. That's something that's always pushed me.