Unbending Will Quotes

It is better to die standing, than to live bending.

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.

When I'm out there, I play with a chip on my shoulder regardless of the situation.

A government may not waver; once it has chosen its course, it must, without looking to right or left, thenceforth go forward.

I have refused to bend under the constant drumbeat and media attention.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

I'm not going nowhere, no matter who I fight.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

There is something inherently tough about Americans. They will not accept defeat.

A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.

That's Quentin. He's an absolute master of his own fate. If he agrees with you, he'll change his mind instantly. If he thinks that he's right, there's no way you can get him to change his mind.

I love people that, in the face of falling off a cliff, still want to fight about something that happened five minutes ago, going, 'Now, you know I'm right about that,' even though they're facing imminent doom.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

[He was] Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.

I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do not allow others to smear or sully their inner pictures of what they want to manifest, always seem to get what they desire in their lives.

[Describing Margaret Thatcher:] She approaches the problems of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?