Quotes about Determination

Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.