Quotes About Determination

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land.

If it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil.

I'll be free, or I'll die.

If we would not meet trouble for a good cause, we were not worthy of our name.

never give up, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Don't run away from it, just because it's difficult.

Because if you love someone, you have to be brave and tell them. Don't let them go. And if you say no I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to convince you I'm right. I promise. I won't leave you alone. Because it's not about who's whats or wheres or anything. We should be together. The other stuff doesn't matter. That's all.

Stand up for what you believe with strength and grace and the barriers will begin to fall away. Harriet Green

Change requires courage, but the failure to change does not signify the lack of it.

I don't want to pretend. I want to achieve, really achieve. Or I will take my disappointments like anyone else.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty."

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.'" (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

There's little point in killing an idea by saying it might fail. Any idea might fail. If you're doing anything worthwhile at all, you'll suffer a dozen failures. Start failing so you can start succeeding

It is not how long you work at some task that determines what you'll receive for it in exchange. It is the value someone else places upon the product or service that determines what it is worth in exchange.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.