Quotes About Determination

Indeed, in his view, being difficult – 'singular and reserved, or whatever you may be pleased to call it' – was actually a necessity for those who wanted to achieve remarkable things.

His finest hour was the leadership of Britain when it was most isolated, most threatened and most weak; when his own courage, determination and belief in democracy became at one with the nation.

Indian Corps and the 4th Corps will push through the barrage of fire regardless of loss, using reserves if required.

Seeking to encourage Collins, Churchill replied with his favourite Boer saying, 'All will come right.' On

A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.

Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

If I had heard that as many devils would set on me in Worms as there are tiles on the roofs, I should nonetheless have ridden there.

Here stand I. I can do no other.

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!

Hier stehe Ich. Ich kann nicht anders.

Hier stehe Ich, Ich kann nicht anders." ("Here I stand, I can do no other")

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

Here I stand, I can do no other.

that prudence of yours makes you veer about, determined not to commit yourself to either side, but to pass safely between Scylla and Charybdis; with the result that, finding yourself battered and buffeted by the waves in the midst of the sea, you assert everything you deny and deny everything you assert.

Even if I knew the world was going to go to pieces I'd still plant an apple tree today

We should give heed to what has been said by the heathen poet: "Do not yield to evils but proceed more boldly against them."15

You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

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

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him.