Quotes about Determination

I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.

Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone's life the joy you want it to be.

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.

knowing does not guarantee doing. Doing engages the will and a preset commitment.

The leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it. p159

But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes.

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

I don't want to make sacrifices. I want to make dough.

kid I wanted apple cheeks someday, and I decided to work at it until I got them, and by God, I did work at it until I got them, and that's how I did it, with crab apples in my cheeks

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.