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Quotes About Determination

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.
~ Eric Butterworth
The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!
~ Franz Stampfl
The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.
~ Larry Rosenberg
Fear is essential for courage.
~ Unknown
To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.
~ George A. Sheehan
Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
~ Elia Kazan
Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.
~ T. Harv Eker
The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.
~ Herb Elliott
The gunshot holds no fear!
~ Dakota Fanning
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
~ George Eliot
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
~ George Eliot
Fearlessness can be its own form of power.
~ Glenn Greenwald
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
~ Amy Tan
It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.
~ Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
~ TJ Hoisington
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
~ Tacitus
Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.
~ William Shakespeare
Kohaku aren't you afraid to die? No. Truly, there is neither fear nor hesitation in your eyes.
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
~ Walter Raleigh
I have no fear in moving up (in weight) and fighting.
~ Ricky Hatton
Hang those that talk of fear.
~ William Shakespeare
There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
~ Rickie Lee Jones