Quotes About Determination

The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

Do not fear failure. Do more than is required of you. Make your plans fit the circumstances. There is only one type of discipline—perfect discipline.

They had one mantra, and it came straight from the founder of the OSS, Wild Bill Donovan. If you fall, fall forward

The only easy day was yesterday

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

if you weren't cheating, you weren't trying.

in history had been won not by those with the greatest number of troops, but rather those with the largest commitment to winning the fight.

Courage, though, wasn't the absence of fear. It was what you did in spite of it.

When your enemies succeed because they aren't constrained by rules, at some point you have to either accept defeat, or tear up the rulebook.

Absence of fear didn't make your brave; it was what you did in spite of being afraid. — Scot Harvath

Absence of fear didn't make you brave; it was what you did in spite of being afraid. — Scot Harvath

only easy day was yesterday, Failure

Everything was about state of mind and how he chose to perceive his situation. The people who felt powerless were the ones who wouldn't make it.

Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.

I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.

for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

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This will not do,' he said to himself. 'If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must stop! I promised the doctor I would not take tea. Faith, he was pretty right! My nerves must have been getting in a queer state. Funny I did not notice it. I never felt better in my life. However it is all right now, and I shall not be such a fool again.' Then he mixed himself a good stiff glass of brandy and water and resolutely sat down to his work.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself; it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

He came back full of life and hope and determination.

Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!

Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.

I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength; and as I knew I was a madman—at times anyhow—I resolved to use my power.

It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.