Here is our list of determination quotes to inspire and motivate you. Please review and see if you find something to your liking.
Quotes About Determination
Winners are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
Unknown
Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied.
The Rock
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
Colin Powell
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Anthony Robbins
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! Has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Channing Pollock
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Stick to it sayings
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
Not all great works are made from strength; it is the determination, the perseverance that drives the spirit onwards.
Unknown
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, determination, dedication, and competitive drive, and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the worthwhile things, it can be done.
Anthony Robbins
Good Determination Quotes
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.
Les Brown
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Tony Robbins
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Robert Hughes
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen
Inspiring Determination Quotes
Your goals and dreams start forming in your mind from when you are a child. You determine to fulfill the dreams that help you achieve them. You persevere continuously because of your determination. Great men have always said that nothing can be achieved without determination and perseverance. Even the most talented people, even geniuses, cannot achieve anything great in their life if they don’t have this quality in them.
Make no mistake about it! If you want to succeed in your mission or life, determination is one quality that can beat anything else! Here are some famous, inspiring quotations on willpower that will give you a solid reason and encourage you to keep persevering until you achieve what you desire.
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Commitment
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
Tommy Lasorda
We will either find a way or make one!
Hannibal
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer
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Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons
Great men rise from their determination, and nothing great can happen without them.
Author Unknown
PERSIST. Because with an idea, determination, and the right tools, you can do great things.
Author Unknown
True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
Iain Duncan Smith
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
Norman Cousins
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
Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Roger Dawson
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Hard Work Quotations
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy – invincible determination – a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
John Christian Bovee
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley
Keep your determination to succeed strong, and nothing, not even failure, would hinder you.
Unknown
The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
James Whitcomb Riley
It is your determination and persistence that will make you a successful person.
Kenneth J Hutchins
A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
William Feather
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
Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.
James A. Murphy
Determination Quote
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens
Courage is the foundation of determination. Determination and courage are the cornerstones of success.
Unknown
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.
Wilma Rudolph
When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find ways to get it.
Jim Rohn
Determination becomes an obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
Jeremy Irvine
I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father … I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father …
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.
Unknown
Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.
Lora Leigh
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Willpower Sayings
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Chinese Proverb
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Leon Battista Alberti
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
Will is character in action.
William McDougall
People with strong will power will always have the bigger picture in mind. They will be able to forgo small pleasures in order to help attain bigger goals.
Brian Adams
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
Going All In Quotations
Men can do all things if they will.
Leon Batista Alberti
It is not how many times you fall down that will determine your success, only the strength that every time you fall down, you’ll get back up.
Unknown
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt, or fear.
Dan Millman
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 Jr.
Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
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
Motivational Determination Quotes
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
Most people fail because they do not have determination and perseverance. Extraordinary people are determined and persevere; that is what makes them extraordinary.
Catherine Pulsifer
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the 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
Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait … they are captured by those who dare to attack.
Paul J. Meyer
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courageous Quotes
Courage is the foundation of determination. Determination and courage are the cornerstones of success.
Unknown
A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.
Catherine Pulsifer
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.
Bethany Hamilton
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
Dedication and Willpower Quotes
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.
Jessie Owens
Most of life’s actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
Robert McKee
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
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Dan Millman
Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable
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
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