Quotes about Determination
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
— William James
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
— Martin Luther
Necessity does the work of courage.
— George Eliot
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.
— Confucius
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.
— Livy
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
— Ruth Gordon
I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.
— George W. Bush
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
— Harriet Tubman