Quotes about Determination

Here stand I. I can do no other.

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!

Hier stehe Ich, Ich kann nicht anders." ("Here I stand, I can do no other")

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

Here I stand, I can do no other.

We should give heed to what has been said by the heathen poet: "Do not yield to evils but proceed more boldly against them."15

You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."