Quotes About Determination

He who can lick can bite.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

I was nervous and confident at the same time, nervous about going out there in front of all of those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

It circulated for five years, through the halls of fifteen publishers, and finally ended up with Vanguard Press, which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

I read part of it all the way through.

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointments, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

Sir John A. Macdonald

Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Character is perfectly educated will.

Character is that which can do without success.

When to elect there is but one, Tis Hobson's Choice; take that or none.

His Christianity was muscular.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

A committee of one gets things done.