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Quotes About Determination

In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.
~ George S. Patton
The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.
~ Joseph Joffre
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.
~ Philip Sheridan
If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.
~ Sun Tzu
There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
~ William Blake
We'll make a bunker hill of it.
~ George Pickett
I would fight them if they were a million!
~ Albert Sidney Johnston
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
~ John Keats
The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.
~ Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.
~ Jim Rohn
I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!
~ Philip Sheridan
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
~ Sun Tzu
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.
~ Ronald Reagan
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
~ William Hazlitt
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.
~ Robert Anderson
Once you start a war, you have to win.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.
~ Robert G. Allen
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.
~ Ronald Reagan
The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.
~ Nabeshima Naoshige
There are things worth fighting for.
~ Robert Jordan
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
~ George S. Patton
I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.
~ David Gemmell
Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home
~ Steven Spielberg