Quotes About Determination

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.

But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.

Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it's to feel the fear and face it anyway.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.

The coward despairs.

It's never too late to stop believing a lie, " said Thomas. "You need only courage and friends, and you have both.

In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.

To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.