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Quotes About Determination

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
~ e. e. cummings
Man can learn everything if he will but try.
~ E. M. Forster
A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.
~ Edmond Rostand
Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
~ Edward Young
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
~ Esther Forbes
I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.
~ Evan Parker
There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
~ Felix Frankfurter
I can stand out the war with any man.
~ Florence Nightingale
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
~ Frederick William Robertson
It's true that the man stealer is always lurking around the corner it's just our job and your duty to make sure they back up!
~ Gabrielle Dennis
A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
~ George Bernard Shaw
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
~ George McGovern
A true man does what he will, not what he must.
~ George R. R. Martin
That man said he'd take your head too." "Well, as to that," Yoren said, "if he can get it off my shoulders, he's welcome to it.
~ George R. R. Martin
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.
~ George S. Patton
The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong
~ George W. Romney
When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
~ George Washington
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
~ Gerald Stanley Lee
I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Every man is the maker of his own fortune
~ Gertrude Stein
I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.
~ Lindsey Kelk