Top 100 Quotes About Determination
#1. My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!
Vonda Shepard
#2. Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.
Michael Jordan
#3. Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump.
Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
Grace Lichtenstein
#4. Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can control is the fate we choose for another.
Emily Thorne
#5. We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.
Wess Stafford
#6. No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.
Charles R. Swindoll
#7. Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination.
Kim Harrison
#8. A mother's love never wavers in its strength, never falters in its fierce determination, never dilutes despite time or treason.
Richard Capwell
#9. I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.
Audie Murphy
#10. Evidence of true faith is the determination to trust God when that which He allows makes no sense--and is utterly disagreeable.
David P. Ingerson
#11. I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
Abebe Bikila
#12. If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#13. 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 very good business.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#14. I ventured into fiction in 1988 with 'What Love Sees,' a biographical novel of a woman's unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness.
Susan Vreeland
#15. I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.
Renny Harlin
#16. They drank with quiet determination, avoiding serious discussions of troubling news. In doing this they added a small, sullen silence to the larger, hollow one. It made an alloy of sorts, a counterpoint.
Patrick Rothfuss
#17. We have had the opportunity to learn from the misjudgments of others, and we have been imbued with determination to use our time wisely, to cause as little pain as possible to others, to pay attention, to live and love with few regrets.
Jill Fredston
#18. Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.
Ricky Martin
#19. When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.
Ronald Reagan
#20. The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth ...
Petra Kelly
#21. Determination doesn't make it easier, it makes it possible.
Jean Charest
#22. Perhaps the most important attitude for cultivating good fortune is a strong sense of perseverance. Many of the people in this book faced considerable constraints in finding the Element and managed to do it through sheer, dogged determination. None more so than Brad Zdanivsky.
Ken Robinson
#23. Auschwitz speaks against even a right to self-determination that is enjoyed by all other peoples because one of the preconditions for the horror, besides other, older urges, was a strong and united Germany.
Gunter Grass
#24. 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
#25. Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.
Hugh Nibley
#26. But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.
Mary Balogh
#27. The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.
John Cheever
#29. There are no magic wands, no hidden tracks, and no secret handshakes that can bring you immediate success, but with time, energy and determination you can get there.
Darren Rowse
#30. I will never understand the determination behind a fake personality
Leslie Paige
#31. His fierce determination to escape an invalid's fate led him to transform his body and timid demeanor through strenuous work; Taft, on the other hand, blessed from birth with robust health, would allow his physical strength and energy to gradually dissipate over the years into a state of obesity.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#32. Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.
Napoleon Hill
#33. We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.
Dalai Lama
#34. The number of people that reside on our side will be the determination for a good result. Or a terrible one.
Shannon A. Thompson
#35. I AM ALL ABOUT SELF-DETERMINATION. Will. Control. I determine my path in life. I decide my failures and successes. Screw fate. Destiny can kiss my ass. If I want something badly enough, I can have it. If I focus, sacrifice, there is nothing I can't do.
Emma Chase
#36. Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.
Stefano Gabbana
#37. For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one's progress on the spiritual path and renew one's determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#38. Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.
John Wooden
#39. Zionism, like other self-determination movements ...
Ruth Wisse
#40. 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
#41. There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.
Emma Goldman
#42. As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.
Dexter Fletcher
#43. With rocky and dangerous pasts, comes determination and self-sacrifice.
Amanda Bennett
#44. Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.
Dalai Lama
#45. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Roger Dawson
#46. Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.
Howard W. Hunter
#47. She's her mother's daughter - full of courage, determination, and strength she doesn't even know she has.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
#48. How many of us dig our own graves, thought William. We dig them with vigour and determination, unaware of the implications, but with all the conviction of those who do not really know what they are doing, who are impervious to the dangers that others can see so clearly.
Alexander McCall Smith
#49. I'm willing to do almost anything for you. I'd go back in time to change things if I could." He gazes down at me with determination. "But I'm not leaving you alone.
Erin Watt
#50. We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.
David Blunkett
#51. Getting over those unexpected hurdles may not be exactly enjoyable, but ultimately I believe that such challenges and the solutions we find give us more confidence.They teach us with common sense and determination we can turn what looks like a disaster into a triumph.
Martha Stewart
#52. It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.
Henry Addington
#53. Jessica Parker. You posses an exceptional gift of leadership. We honor your unwavering determination and your steadfast loyalty. You are a champion of justice and a true visionary guardian of the world.
Kay Cassidy
#54. True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
Karl Barth
#55. 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
#56. Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
Morton Hunt
#57. 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
#58. Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
James Whitcomb Riley
#59. But our determination is what creates the path - our determination to make use of adversity rather than escape it.
Alex Lickerman
#60. The path to success involves two parts. Part One is all about imagination and dreaming up a big idea. Part Two is all about having the diligence, the determination, and the tenacity needed to turn those dreams into reality. First comes the inspiration, then comes the perspiration.
Clay Clark
#61. I can never stop working hard. Each day I feel that I have to improve. Hardwork ... Determination ... I gotta keep pushing myself.
Michael Jordan
#62. Success means leaving everything behind and standing persistently towards our aims with great determination.
Rajasaraswathii
#63. The determination that is his biggest strength ... is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll just keep shoving, not realizing a step back, a one-night pause, could let some obstacle move out of the way and smooth his path.
Lin Pardey
#64. Like yeast, it's impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one's efforts grow and expand.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#65. The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
George S. Patton
#66. A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
Louis L'Amour
#67. 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
#68. We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God
Mother Teresa
#69. Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
Arleigh Burke
#70. I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
Prince Charles
#71. To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.
Richard Koch
#72. And I believe determination to be the greatest gift of all. Greater even than beauty, intelligence, or cunning. Determination matters most." She
Sally Christie
#73. I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.
Wayne Rooney
#74. 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 Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
#75. 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
#76. The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.
Mahatma Gandhi
#78. Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.
Nhat Hanh
#79. Prejudice and bigotry are brought down ... by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
Condoleezza Rice
#80. He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#81. He knew what his plans were. He knew they balanced, like a million angels, on the head of a pin. Chance, circumstance, and determination held them together.
Cassandra Clare
#82. 167. And having not the faith that is resolute, that faith cannot endure, and because it endureth not, how can he attain unto the faith of determination? And attaining not unto the faith of determination, the faith is not sanctified in him.
Shinran
#83. All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities ... toward full European integration.
Igor Luksic
#84. Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.
Kevin Daniels
#85. For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.
Angela Merkel
#86. A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.-Colin Powell
Colin Powell
#87. She wore her determination like war paint.
Sara Donati
#88. While determination builds character, quitting is habit forming.
Frank Sonnenberg
#89. The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
Barbara Mikulski
#90. I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
Taylor Caldwell
#91. Suddenly I felt that determination well up, which had helped me to accomplish things in the past, even when I was only six years old.
Gisela Hausmann
#92. That distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present.
Leon Logothetis
#93. You promoted me for my ruthless stubbornness and dog-headed determination, not my tech savvy. Plus, I'm a damn good shot.
Katherine McIntyre
#94. If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.
Billy Bragg
#95. Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#96. It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the course of the evolutionary process, and to illuminate the question of the origin of species.
Linus Pauling
#97. The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#98. The backbone of success is ... hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.
Mia Hamm
#99. Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is a determination that there is something more important than fear.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#100. Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
Martin Bashir
