Determination Quotes and Sayings

Determination quotes and sayings can help when life is a struggle. Being persistent, staying positive, and having determination can help overcome obstacles in life.

When the going gets tough, stay motivated with our collection of determination quotes and sayings.

10 Best Determination Quotes

1. You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner

2. Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable

3. When the will is ready, the feet are light.
George Herbert

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4. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston S. Churchill

5. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi

6. You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich

7. It takes determination to see a dream come to pass. The question is not will you start, but will you finish.
Joel Osteen

8. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

9. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower

10. It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
George Eliot

Good Quotations About Determination

11. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

12. Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley

13. Don’t tell me what you believe in. I’ll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
Alex Trebek

14. I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes

15. It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.
Mark Cuban

16. What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration, and the will to win.
Patty Berg

17. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

18. Persistence is essential – the determination never to allow your energy to be dampened by the discouragement that inevitably comes.
James Whitcomb Riley

19. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman

Short Determination Quotes

20. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
Carl von Clausewitz

22. I was a little-known nightclub singer, who had more determination than talent.
Maya Angelou

23. Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

24. Determination gets you a long way.
Chelsea Clinton

25. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

26. The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

27. Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Tony Robbins

28. It is the size of one’s will which determines success.
Unknown

29. Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake

30. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills

31. Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
Criss Jami

32. Determination becomes an obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
Jeremy Irvine

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33. Say “I will!” and stick to it — the only way to do it.
Nixon Waterman

34. A year from now you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb

35. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Winston S. Churchill

36. Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
Iain Duncan Smith

37. All depends on how determined we are to be successful.
Robert Kiyosaki

38. He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin

Determination Quotes To Inspire

39. We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal

40. The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi

41. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell

42. Never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill

43. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda

44. You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston

45. If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.
Dr Roopleen

46. If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
Les Brown

47. Working hard, being patient and being full of determination is the most fulfilling way of becoming rich.
Robert Gardner

Believe in Yourself Quotes

48. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

49. The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.
C. JoyBell C.

50. It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.
Mark Cuban

51. Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.
Roy T. Bennett

52. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person; he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

53. Anything is possible once we believe and never relinquish hope.
Shadonna Richards

54. Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don’t let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.
Roy T. Bennett

Motivational Determination Quotes and Sayings

55. We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens

56. Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen

57. Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
Cory Doctorow

58. If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

59. Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

60. Stay focused and stay determined. Don’t look to anyone else to be your determination – have self-determination. It will take you very far.
Justice Smith

61. Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons

62. Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
Zig Ziglar

63. Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.
Dr. Roopleen

Determination and Persistence Quotes

64. If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

65. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack Obama

66. The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock

67. It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling rather than feel your way into a new way of acting.
G. D. Morgan

68. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill

69. People with strong willpower always have the bigger picture in mind. They can forgo small pleasures for bigger goals.
Brian Adams

70. Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
Brian Tracy

71. When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.
Zig Ziglar

72. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Positive Quotes

73. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

74. Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.
Bethany Hamilton

75. Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one’s liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel

76. I’m not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.
Mark Cavendish

77. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

78. Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self-belief – everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.
Dustin Poirier

79. An Unfailing Success Plan: At each day’s end write down the six most important things to do tomorrow; number them in order of importance, and then do them.
Unknown

80. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
David J. Schwartz

Determination Quotes to Learn From

81. Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination and a little bit of luck.
Stefano Gabbana

82. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers

83. A hero should have loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity, and selflessness.
Ricky Martin

84. To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.
T.F. Hodge

85. Slow and steady wins the race.
Unknown

86. I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone

87. To succeed… you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett

88. When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it; it simply means I can’t do it with them.
Karen E. Quinones Miller

Quotes About Courage

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89. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou

90. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

91. Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually, it will subside, and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

92. Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.
Roy T. Bennett

93. My message to you all is of hope and courage. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

94. True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Alfred North Whitehead

95. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou

96. Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.
C. JoyBell C.

Notable Tenacity Quotes

97. Winners are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
Unknown

98. Your determination to succeed is everything.
Unknown

99.) I can. I will. End of story.
Unknown

100.) There is no force equal to that of a determined woman.
Unknown

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