Determination Quotes

GOD is determined on you.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

I do not know the word 'quit'. Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

~ Susan Butcher

Emperors are not made from cowards, they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Greatness is not a gift that one can give to another, but rather is a thief's relic that we must take for ourselves.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be compared with others? Talk is the weapon of the weak; release your arrows instead of hollow words.

~ Kavita Kané

It is easy to smile in the face of a challenge, when we believe in ourselves that we won't back down.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

~ Criss Jami

True confidence is born of experiencing your hard work and seeing your determination pay off.

~ Lorii Myers

When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take.

~ Auliq Ice

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

~ Christian D. Larson

Dreaming of the life we want has always been easier than working for it.

~ Auliq Ice

Failure is not the final fall. The will to rise when you fall is fortitude to success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Grade is only a number.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You may face many disappointments. But don’t lose hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at it.

~ Marie Brennan

You should be patient to wait for what you want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t give up! Keep trying, your victory is certain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.

~ Moffat Machingura

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

~ A.j. Darkholme

If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed.

~ Tim Fargo

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up.

~ Habeeb Akande

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

~ Amelia E. Barr

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.

~ Habeeb Akande

Trust that you have everything you need right now to be successful financially. All it takes to bring out your natural, God-given gifts is your desire, determination, and a deep faith that you have a genius and a gift that is unique.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Your life, your world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

~ George Sheehan

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

~ Tim Fargo

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.

~ Habeeb Akande

Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.

~ Robert Dieffenbach

We should not look for more in others,Rather find more within ourselves

~ Morris R. Gates

Hope: Hold on, persistence effort!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet—no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with the boy, not the astronomer.

~ Mark Twain

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)

~ Phil Valentine

How unlucky she was--born with adventurous hooves that were stuck inside a pen. But she wasn't giving up. If there was a way out, Flora said to herself, she would find it.

~ Chris Kurtz

It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.

~ Sara Sheridan