Stonewall Jackson Quotes

It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.

Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question.

I have always liked a challenge.

I like a challenge.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

I've always loved a challenge.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

We shall either find a way or make one.

Always be prudent but never hesitant.

When it comes to making tough decisions, I'm ready to make them.

We were always thinking big, dreaming big - no project was too big for us to tackle, and that comes from how we were raised. Our parents actually said to us, 'If somebody says you can't do something, find five ways to do it.'

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

My will power has always been very strong. If I want something, I'll get it. I've had no trouble keeping my head on my shoulders, nor do I have any chips on there.

If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.