Determination along with persistence should be used by each of us more often. When we’re determined, we are able to appreciate our strengths and acknowledge our limitations. We learn to set demanding yet realistic goals for ourselves. We are also able to create plans, make appropriate choices and decisions, become responsible, find solutions to every problem, and finally, it helps us achieve our goals. Nothing is impossible when a person practices determination; anything is achievable. Regardless of the type of goal or journey that you’re into right now, if you’re determined to succeed, nothing will stop you to make it happen.
Have you ever met a person who lacks self-determination? Someone who complains a lot, always in a hurry, focuses more on the failures, and doesn’t have a specific goal in mind? Those type of people are more likely to fail and give up after failing. They are lazy and are not really serious in achieving their goals in life. There will be times you will doubt yourself, but this shouldn’t stop you from pushing through. You must live with a positive mindset, keep moving in the right direction, and practice discipline. Once you learn to do these things, you will not only come out as victorious in spite of many life’s challenges, you will also take pride in what you’ve accomplished.
If you need encouragement or if you know someone who lacks self-determination, these determination quotes we prepared might help you out. These words are from people who have reached the pinnacle of success because of their determination and hard work.
Determination Quotes
1. My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct. – Goldie Hawn
2. An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. – Thomas Fuller
3. I like to think that I’ve got determination, and I’m fiercely protective of the people I love. – Andrew Lincoln
4. Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It’s not really anything; it’s just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck. – Shia LaBeouf
5. Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. – Jesse Jackson
6. I think I’m seen as trustworthy. I’m seen as having determination and persistence, and I’m seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues. – John Howard
7. I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade – relentlessly, mercilessly – by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake. – Megyn Kelly
8. With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and applesauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner strength, drive, and discipline. – Lee Haney
9. I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work. – Paul Stanley
10. A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. – Colin Powell
11. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
12. 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
13. 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
14. Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of. – Bethany Hamilton
15. 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
16. 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. – Calvin Coolidge
17. Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. – Dan Gable
18. 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
19. Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result. – Alia Bhatt
20. 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
21. 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
22. The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination. – Tommy Lasorda
23. 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
24. What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win. – Patty Berg
25. I’ve always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you’ve got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish. – Chuck Norris
26. Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. – Carl von Clausewitz
27. Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. – Iain Duncan Smith
28. 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
29. And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. – Ayrton Senna
30. Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. – Denis Waitley
31. The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. – Napoleon Bonaparte
32. 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
33. Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. – George A. Sheehan
34. The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination. – Bill Rancic
35. Victory is the child of preparation and determination. – Sean Hampton
36. There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day. – James Dobson
37. They say love will find a way. I know determination will. – Ronnie Milsap
38. If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan – or a company like Xerox – then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be a very good business. – Anne M. Mulcahy
39. A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. – Christian Nestell Bovee
40. Hard work isn’t enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It’s actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness. – Reid Hoffman
41. When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I’m proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination. – Doug Collins
42. Donald has a deep and unbounding determination and a never-give-up attitude. I have seen him fight for years to get a project done – or even started – and he does not give up! If you want someone to fight for you and your country, I can assure you, he is the ‘guy.’ – Melania Trump
43. You always give credit where credit is due – to high school coaches, college coaches – but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad. – Robert Griffin III
44. You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Horace Lorimer
45. He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana. – Buddha
46. I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. – Rahul Dravid
47. The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. – Channing Pollock
48. A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. – Louis L’Amour
49. Determination gets you a long way. – Chelsea Clinton
50. Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. – Charles Simmons
51. Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan. – Paul J. Meyer
52. Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. – Horace Mann
53. Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness. – Ricky Martin
54. I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it. – Bethany Hamilton
55. 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
56. Being part of a fraternity has given me the foundation for everything I do in my career from the loyalty to the determination; it laid the foundation for everything I’ve been able to enjoy. I’m heavily involved with Omega Psi Phi. – Terrence J
57. At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. – Shirley Chisholm
58. Racing takes so much determination, guts, and sacrifice to be on top. I once craved, lived, and breathed racing. I can honestly say now, I’m ready to slow down and enjoy my life. Maybe I’ll cut loose and have a cheeseburger or some pizza. Those types of indulgences are not allowed when you constantly have to monitor your weight. – Chantal Sutherland
59. 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
60. Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It’s the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that’s the real reason that the relationships continue. – James McAvoy
61. Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters. – Jeremy Irvine
62. I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder. – Wayne Rooney
63. My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. 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
64. The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination. – Vince Lombardi
65. 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
66. We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. – Andrew Jackson
67. The dream doesn’t lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education. – Alphonso Jackson
68. It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. – Man Ray
69. Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
70. I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination. – Anthony Joshua
71. All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it’s impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn’t left an imprint through the generations. Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me – I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us. – Michael Johnson
72. Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
73. I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk. – Daniel Day-Lewis
74. I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country. – Paul Biya
75. Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck. – Stefano Gabbana
76. I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it’s just about your drive and your dream. – Chris Brown
77. With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on. – Barack Obama
78. Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune. – Daniel Boone
79. Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. – Margaret J. Wheatley
80. My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He’s inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination – but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field. – Snoop Dogg
81. We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine. – Joe Biden
82. To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players. – LeBron James
83. At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live. – Howard Thurman
84. We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination. – Muammar al-Gaddafi
85. Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives – they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare. – Ban Ki-moon
86. When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, ‘I want to be like him.’ This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners. – Yair Lapid
87. Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I’m a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can’t learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind. – Joe Nichols
88. The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. – James Larkin
89. I get Tweets every day from people telling me that ‘Hey, I’m going to overcome my injury or my illness. Cancer. Different diseases. I can beat it because Adrian Peterson showed me the determination and the willpower to be able to prosper and get through adversity whenever it comes.’ – Adrian Peterson
90. Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Highest God. Our ‘accepting’ and ‘willing’ are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God. – Aiden Wilson Tozer
91. Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment. – Gerry Adams
92. But with the right kind of coaching and determination, you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear. – Reese Witherspoon
93. Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. – J. Donald Walters
94. To all of the people along the way who hurt me, lied to me, betrayed me and broke my heart. You forced me to see the change I needed in my life and gave me the determination, motivation and a belief that I needed to change. You gave me more than you could ever take from me, so thank you.
95. Life is a process, not an event, so keep on working hard with 100% determination and faith in God, because these two things will surely lead to success.
96. Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder. – Sam Altman
97. I am a person of action, immovable in my determination, confident in my abilities, unshakable in my convictions, impervious to doubt, insensitive to the negative opinion of everyone who does not have interest in my goals.
98. Failure keeps you humble, success keeps you glowing, but only faith and determination keeps you going.
99. Once you have made your choice, stick with it. Even if you come across problems, have the determination to overcome them.
100. As I assume my responsibilities as your representative, I wish to assure you of my loyalty and devotions, as well of my determination to serve you and the people of Canada to the utmost of my abilities. – Romeo LeBlanc
101. No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. – Gustav Stresemann
102. The determination to win is the better part of winning. – Daisaku Ikeda
103. Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will. – Yamamoto Tsunetomo
104. Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one’s family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters. – Ezra Taft Benson
105. Remember that breath walking – as with any meditation technique – should not be pursued with a grim determination to ‘get it right.’ The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. – Andrew Weil
106. What inspired me to work so hard and to maintain my determination was seeing my mother. She was an immigrant and was struggling in America to make it by; that inspired me to work hard. – Michelle Phan
107. We have proclaimed to the world our determination ‘to die free men, rather than to live slaves.’ We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven, we have placed our trust. – Samuel Adams
108. The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn’t an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth. – Robert Dallek
109. It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed. – Henry Addington
