Quotes about Resolute Determination

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

He was grand in his convictions. He would stride forward to meet his own destruction.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

So we do nothing?" Claire asked. "We do the best nothing you've ever seen.

Anything worthwhile is worth fighting for,' Claire said. 'Not always with guns and stuff. But with … taking a stand. Right?

She pressed her fingertips into the hard wood of the handrail until they whitened. She would constrict the world to a pinhole.

Ye must do it, and it makes no difference if you're afraid-ye'll do it. It's only when ye ken ye can say no that it takes courage.

He'd straightened his shoulders as he spoke; she could see him reach beyond his own emotion and tiredness and grasp his calling as another man might grip his sword.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

Run , she told herself. Run, you idiot, run. But she didn't. She couldn't. She just... couldn't.

Compromise for your Dream but NEVER Compromise on your Dream.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

until one is committed there is hesitancy

Gray's dark stare bored into the eyes of the pirate who held Maeve. If you so much as breathe on her, I'll kill you, he silently vowed,

masculine man

Your brain is your weapon.

If it didnt work out the first time, it wont work out the second. Or the third. Or the fourth.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

I am loyal to my way.

There's always a choice," she said, opening her eyes again and meeting Flyn's with a somber gaze of her own. "You have to be willing to make it.

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.

I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.