Quotes About Determination

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

If I thought he'd been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him

For courage mounteth with occasion.

Unhand me, gentlemen,By heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gallTo make oppression bitter.

They fool me to the top of my bent.

Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"Like the poor cat i' the adage.

I'll queen it no inch further,But milk my ewes and weep.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

This is the nightThat either makes me or fordoes me quite.

I'll not budge an inch.

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furiousIs to be frighted out of fear.

William Shakespeare

I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I came, saw, and overcame."

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, "Fie upon this quiet life! I want work."

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.

Ambition,The soldier's virtue.

It keeps on the windy side of care.

Macbeth: If we should fail—Lady Macbeth: We fail!But screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we'll not fail.

'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

What man dare, I dare:Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.