Determination Quotes

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.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

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.

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.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

We not only earnestly desire peace, but we are moved by a stern determination to avoid those perils that will endanger our peace with the world.

I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash, of market baskets, of a few hours of weekly work cutting grass, raking leaves or picking up papers in the public parks. We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but also their self-respect, their self-reliance and courage and determination.

I may say that I 'got along fine' with Marshal Stalin. He is a man who combines a tremendous, relentless determination with a stalwart good humor. I believe he is truly representative of the heart and soul of Russia.

We believe that people ought to work out for themselves, and through their own study, the determination of their best interest rather than accept such so-called information as may be handed out to them by certain types of self-constituted leaders who decide what is best for them.

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.

Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true. We were in the midst of shock - but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively.

With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.

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

Prison - far from breaking our spirits - made us more determined to continue with this battle until victory was won.