Quotes About Determination

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.

I am only one man with one heart...Call me a demon, call me a monster...but I can't be the strongest forever...!!! — Whitebeard's response to his status as the "Strongest Man in the World".

My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.