Quotes About Determination

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Freedom is self-determination.

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

Freedom. I will not give you up.