Quotes about Determination
She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.
- Mark Twain
The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to find out which it was.
- Mark Twain
All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up.
- Mark Twain
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. But
- Mark Twain
To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence
- Mark Twain
The road to medical school started with a job mowing lawns I was far from sure I could handle.
- Mark Vonnegut
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must substitute courage for caution.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.