Top 100 Determination Life Quotes
#1. Only bad things happen quickly, ... Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.
Gordon Livingston
#2. Don't be discourage by your problems.
Let your passion and dreams inspired you to keep moving forward.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#3. Miss Marshall spent her life daring those more powerful than her to swat her down. The hell of it was, her determination was some kind of contagion. He could feel it infecting him, making him believe. Making him tell himself lies like 'I could do some good' and 'I want her forever'.
Courtney Milan
#4. When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether.
Sri Chinmoy
#7. In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with.
T.F. Hodge
#8. I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero.
Crystal Woods
#9. Steve Rom's bravery is unique. Faced with life-threatening circumstances, he focused his determination and spirit to defeat an unbeatable disease. Steve's story is an inspiration to all.
Fred Dryer
#11. Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.
Habeeb Akande
#12. I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination to shape a life, and create a literature, that was not a lie.
Dorothy Allison
#13. [Mandela] had believed all his life that you are very much in control of your own body, and, in the process of healing, your mind had to be stronger than the medicines applied. You also had to have determination to get better.
Zelda La Grange
#14. I hope you take the courage to pursue your dreams. I wish that you will have the determination to start the best day of your life everyday.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#15. You will find a common dichotomy in life. Those who don't have vision or determination, and refuse to dream the impossible, are always in the majority.
Charles R. Swindoll
#16. The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
Mark Twain
#17. Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
Marian Wright Edelman
#18. Dig deep to finish what you start. Because no matter how hard it feels to push through adversity at the time, once your done, you'll own the experience for the rest of your life.
Aaron Lauritsen
#19. Adversity is the litmus of faith, and only by continuing on in a spirit of total determination and self belief do we achieve what we set out to do.
Cash Peters
#20. Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.
Robert Musil
#21. I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith and my principles.
John Bunyan
#22. I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.
Samantha Stosur
#24. Life is a pasture determination and encouragement is it's goals
Marcelle Hinkson
#26. We hold within ourselves the medicinal materials to mend self-inflicted injuries sustained while traversing the thorny obstacle course of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#27. A conquering force sustained the old folks and now centers us. Forming a collective of comeback saints, let us rally behind them and move forward. We're called to a new awakening and application of what we've learned from those who've looked over Jordan.
Deborah L. Parker
#29. This should be one of the basic attitudes - not to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to live it that way, that is his business. Who are you even to have an opinion about it? Even to have an opinion means that you are ready to interfere, you have already interfered.
Osho
#31. Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
Morrissey
#33. Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.
Roopleen
#34. I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.
Jeet Banerjee
#35. Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.
Denis Waitley
#36. Stop. Stop that. Tell me what happened to you." She gently ran her fingers down the length of his chest.
Blake shook his head. "My life outside of this train station won't touch you." His green eyes swam with pain and determination.
Debra Anastasia
#37. What do you have that the Lord didn't provide?
What do you need that the Lord can't provide?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#38. Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
#40. Dedication, Determination, and hard work will feed life into your dreams.
LaDonna M. Cook
#41. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
#42. As a teen I was totally that dumpy overweight nerdy girl that nobody wants to be in the stories you're told. And now I am a dumpy overweight nerdy adult and life is beautiful like a song. I'm not a flower that bloomed in the mud. Just a girl who stayed steady on the path of determination.
Lauren DeStefano
#44. In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.
Daisaku Ikeda
#45. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. He was lying there on his death bed, and he asked for her as his last wish.
She came with tears in her eyes. He held her hand and said with a smile," I wish I died daily", And then a flat line.
Nishikant
#48. Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.
Orison Swett Marden
#49. At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
Hannah Storm
#50. And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and every highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.
Jacques Revaux
#51. The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
Terence
#53. We are condemned to be free people, liberated people who must make life-defining decisions. Freedom requires choices and all choices entail value decisions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#54. Where did everyone find the will to do all the work in the world? We're all allowed a kind of grace period, she decided, when we can coast along, before we really need to choose a life and summon the determination to live it. Her grace period had just run out.
Alethea Black
#55. This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity.
Jaroslav Hasek
#56. When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, 'No matter what life throws at me, I'm going to keep telling myself that I will overcome.' And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script.
Nikki Rosen
#57. Figured that most of life's dilemmas could be solved by asking yourself this one question: Is it worth it
to me?
Heidi Thompson
#58. You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.
Paul Roberts
#60. I found that I could find the energy ... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it ... I can do it ... I can do it!
Jon David Erickson
#61. Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.
Josemaria Escriva
#62. Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.
Tony Blair
#63. The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness
Donald Bradman
#64. Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.
Saleem Durrani
#65. I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Charles Spurgeon
#66. If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#68. You may lose many things in the way you have chosen, don't look back but serve your purpose.
Giridhar Alwar
#69. That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.
Brandon Sanderson
#71. To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.
Roopleen
#72. I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get back what was taken from her.
Mo Daviau
#73. Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.
Charles R. Swindoll
#75. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#76. The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
Wendell Berry
#77. He came back full of life and hope and determination.
Bram Stoker
#78. Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!
Pope John Paul II
#79. How do they do it?" He stopped at her side, his eyes on the jugglers. It seemed impossible that not one ball fell to the ground.
"Determination." She elbowed him playfully. "And being willing to make a few mistakes.
Leigh LaValle
#82. It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.
Menna Van Praag
#83. What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
Helen Keller
#84. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.
Suzy Kassem
#85. You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.
Roopleen
#86. This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.
Penny Chenery Secretariat
#88. A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ... so that you can find the wholeness you seek.
Sue Monk Kidd
#89. There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.
Etty Hillesum
#90. Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.
Ken Scott
#92. I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
Vita Sackville-West
#93. He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable.
Margaret Mitchell
#94. He views life with tenderness and determination.
Paulo Coelho
#95. It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#96. A man must choose his own way of life, and ... it is only by following out one's own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.
[In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]
Winston S. Churchill
#97. Every step in life tends risky, face it to write a story wen it bcums an History
Bukoye Micheal
#98. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#99. I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.
Tim Blixseth