Quotes about Determination
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
Death alone will put a stop to my effort!
- David Livingstone
It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
- Samuel Johnson