determination quotes

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.