Unyielding Resolve Quotes

If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

I may not be able to do it but I’ll die trying.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who’ve no retreat.

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Judge Kavanaugh never wavered from his vow not to buckle under political or public pressure, which is a characteristic we need in a Supreme Court justice.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

[Referring to Jefferson Davis:] ... as cold as a lizzard with the ambition of Lucifer, and what he touches will not prosper.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.

Whatever else people knew about Donald Trump going into 2016, it was obvious he was strong. He said what he thought, no matter who it offended.

The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.

Talent is long patience.

He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

There's something really empowering about going, 'Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!' That's the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

Troops that can advance no farther must, at any price, hold on to the ground they have conquered and die on the spot rather than give way.