Quotes About Determination

Fasten your jibs and loosen your mainsails, you lousy lubbers.

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.

There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side.

I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it.

I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.

the words she penned are driven into the grain" from "The Oak Desk" by Wyatt Townley

Courage is being afraid and going ahead and trying anyway. One can still be afraid and still be courageous.

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

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

Don't let anybody tell you anything about the odds are against you. If they draft you, they send you to Korea and make you face 800 million Chinese. If you can be brave over there, you can be brave right here. These odds aren't as great as those odds. And if you fight here, you will at least know what you're fighting for.

Early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

What am I lying here for?...We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time...Am I waiting until I become a little older?

Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

This was Beijing. A city that never showed its gentle side. You'd die if you didn't fight with it, and there was no end to the fight. Beijing was a city for Sisyphus—you could push and push and push, but ultimately that stone was bound to roll back on you.

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Estas mañanas se repetían cada semana, pero yo no me rendía y seguía quedándome en la cama los domingos. Quería ganar aunque solo fuera un minuto más de sueño. «Un poquito más. Ya casi me he deshecho del cansancio»,

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

We are all pretty determined people, And like Americans tend to look at the place we live in as not only a place but also an idea we live in.

I'm going to—uhhh!