Quotes About Determination

The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Why stay we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me: give me liberty, or give me death!

What the hell are we supposed to do!" Nixon exploded in exasperation. "Paint our asses white and run with the antelopes!

So I'd been captured? So I was starving? Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die? I could still slither. I could still hiss. Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom. What I needed was a new plan.

My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don't matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that.

What motivates you, and why?

Put your sails up and prepare them for action, but recognize that the wind will blow when it chooses to, not when you want it to.

to spur themselves into action, procrastinators have to want to do something.

But unlike your shadow, it's deadset on ruining your life!

The way to take ownership is to realize that everything that happens is a consequence of your free will.

Motivation follows action, yet most of us are seeking motivation that creates action.

Focus instead on what is possible. Focus instead on the fact that if you choose to impose your personal will on your personal reality today, things can happen. That's what confidence can do for you. This

intending to push on at night again. We spent a

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

I had hit bottom, and my only recourse was to push off hard with my heel to rise back to the surface.

Don't let it faze you, kid. I've fallen into my share of black holes, too...

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do . A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

Know yourself and go in swinging.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

I'll find you— Keep calling for me, Viola— Cuz here I come.