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Quotes About Determination

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
~ Malcolm X
Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Boys do what they can; men do what they want
~ Project Pat
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The mighty hopes that make us men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
~ Baruch Spinoza
A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire.
~ Phil Pringle
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
~ Horace
She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.
~ Johanna Lindsey
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
~ Josh Billings
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
~ Jules Renard
I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.
~ Scott Eastwood
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.
~ Sylvia Plath
The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.
~ Creed Bratton
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
~ Earl Nightingale
Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
~ Fletcher Knebel
When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.
~ Albert Goodwill Spalding
Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!
~ Andrew Jackson
Never let another man put fear in your heart.
~ Anthony Pettis
If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?
~ Ben Hogan
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.
~ Berton Braley
Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.
~ Bob Marley