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Quotes About Determination

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.
~ John McCain
War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?
~ Gaspar Noe
No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
~ Roger Daltrey
Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
~ Harry S. Truman
Never go to war unless your willing to win.
~ John G. Schmitz
As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.
~ John McCain
Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
~ Martha Gellhorn
You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.
~ Stephenie Meyer
The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!
~ Ted Turner
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.
~ Alice Walker
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
~ Ferdinand Foch
The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.
~ Stefan Waydenfeld
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
~ Chester Nimitz
It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, " he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.
~ Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Wars are won in the will.
~ Robert Fanney
Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign
~ José de Alencar
Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.
~ Glen Cook, The Black Company
You are here because some sliver of existence within you says that you are a born fighter. That you will put your life before others, and stand when others fall.
~ Melissa West
Do not think of defeat if the battle is not won yet
~ Jordache Wee
I'd prefer 'Bonnie Blue Flag', if you take requests…" Tom had turned and rested his elbows on the bar. His hand was inches from the Colt. These were the men he was looking for.
~ C.G. Faulkner, Unreconstructed