Quotes About Determination

I can handle big news and little news. And if there is no news, I'll go out and bite a dog.

There's a fire been lit that's not so easy to put out

Oh, I am arm'd with more than complete steel, The justice of my quarrel.

he told Byam he had rather die than live upon the same earth with such dogs.

Failure is a signboard which says, try again.

Nothing can defeat you, if you make up your mind to fight and nothing can save you, if you have accepted defeat.

Our life is shaped by our actions not by opinion of others.

The only thing that separates success from failure is one last attempt. Try one more time and you will get lucky.

Success in life is to be measured by the goals you've set yourself.

My life might not turn out to be easy I thought. I just hoped I'd turn out to be strong.

I did not come this far to settle for less than I deserve.

For an hour or so we were furiously angry, and were possessed with an insane sense that we must go straight to the Bay of Whales and have it out with Amundsen and his men in some undefined fashion or other there and then. Such a mood could not and did not bear a moment's reflection; but it was natural enough. We had just paid the first instalment of the heart-breaking labour of making a path to the Pole; and we felt, however unreasonably, that we had earned the first right of way.

A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honour as long as you can put one foot before the other.

More than once in my short life I have been struck by the value of the man who is blind to what appears to be a common-sense certainty: he achieves the impossible.

If you want a good polar traveller get a man without too much muscle, with good physical tone, and let his mind be on wires—of steel. And if you can't get both, sacrifice physique and bank on will.

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a Winter Journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.

I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.

Life is not merely a gift, it is a task, an achievement. We are not simply passive recipients of the Good, but free and determinative agents who react upon what is given, taking it up into our life and working it into the texture of our character.

before dawn of another day I would be swimming for my life in mid-ocean, under water and on the surface, in a temperature of 28 degrees Fahrenheit!

How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'