Determination Quotes

Begin to chase your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe in your passionate dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you know what you want, you find the strength to work for its fulfillment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Persist with great passion and fulfill your great dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find the confident to pursue your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Endure to the very end.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Behind every dreamer stands an army full of true believers.

~ Chris Burkmenn

With all eagerness, pursues your sacred dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every new day gives me ceaseless hope to reach out for my dreams

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are trials in life that feel as tremendous as a quest to slay dragons. These trials are daunting. They require hard work, determination, and courage. But when the dragon is finally slain, the relief is immense.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

~ Irvine Welsh

Papa, I'm ashamed that you think women are so simple. We can make decisions for ourselves too, you know. I'm not a child or a baby anymore, so I'm allowed to speak my mind. And if you don't wish to hear it, just tell me so and I'll go into another room-but I'll speak it anyway. I want this for myself as much as I've never wanted the diplomatic corps and I'm going to get it-even if I have to do it alone. Excuse me.

~ Steve Kluger

How is it possible to live? Life is so hard?’‘You must be harder than life, Firdaus. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.’‘But you are not hard, Sharifa, so how do you manage to live?’‘I am hard, terribly hard, Firdaus.’‘No, you are gentle and soft.’‘My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite deadly.’‘Like a snake?’‘Yes, exactly like a snake. Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

~ Archimedes

Don't see where people are today and think they have always been there, it took a journey of faith.

~ Aloysius Jnr

You may be wrong at first, you can still be right at last.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Sometimes we need boldness, creativity and wisdom to enforce the change we want in us and others.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Faith is the leverage we need to liberate us from the shackles of unbelief.

~ Auliq Ice

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

When she turned I could see her face was plain and outwardly unremarkable, yet possessing of a bearing that showed inner strength and resolve. I stared at her intently with a mixture of feelings. I had realised not long ago that I was no beauty, and even at the age of nine had seen how the more attractive children gained favour more easily. But here in that young woman I could see how those principles could be inverted. I felt myself stand more upright and clench my jaw in subconscious mimicry of her pose

~ Jasper Fforde

A loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and a solid soul create the wings with which we fly.

~ A.d. Posey

You cannot stop the soul who refuses to surrender.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is hard to stop a hopeful soul from the pursuit of passion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

~ Ashish Patel

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

~ Ashish Patel

If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.

~ Rajasaraswathii

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strength en the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At forty two years, Sona Kilroy stood tall and strapping, a powerful figure. Rising to the rank of Admiral in the Corsair fleet was no easy feat. It took intelligence, talent, determination, resilience, creative thinking, brute force, and sheer cunning to achieve – and perhaps also a large slice of luck.

~ Christina Engela

Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That’s only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds – as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983

~ Winston S. Churchill

(...) pick up your axe, start at the rootsdon't miss the trunk, never forget:to end life truly and finallystart at the roots or end there.

~ Moonshine Noire

If you possess a gentle spirit will move mountains.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Destiny is defined by your choices, decisions, and determination.

~ Debasish Mridha

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. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?

~ Lance Armstrong