Quotes About Determination

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

Even if a man has no natural ability, he can be a warrior.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain similarities between him and me.

A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.

A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.