Determination Quotes

During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The United States pledges before you - and therefore before the world - its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma - to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.

We are deeply unified in our support of basic principles: our belief in stability in our financial structure, in our determination we must have fiscal responsibility, in our determination not to establish and operate a paternalistic sort of government where a man's initiative is almost taken away from him by force.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.

War is waged only with vigor, decision, and unshaken will; one must not grope or hesitate.

The word impossible is not French.

There shall be no Alps.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

The effect of discussions, making a show of talent, and calling councils of war will be what the effect of these things has been in every age: they will end in the adoption of the most pusillanimous or (if the expression be preferred) the most prudent measures, which in war are almost uniformly the worst that can be adopted.True wisdom, so far as a general is concerned, consists in energetic determination.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won.