Determination Quotes

MAKE SUCCESS HAPPENSuccess is like a camera. Only focus on what is most important. Ignore trivial details. Concentrate on your main goal image for success. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, don't give up. Take more shots at it. Always be persistent. Focus on making success clearly happen.

~ Mark Lamoure

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

~ Winston S. Churchill

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

~ Beverly Sills

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

~ George Eliot

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

~ Joss Whedon

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

~ Cory Doctorow

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

~ Claire Cook

If you work hard and study hard. And you fuck up. That's okay. If you fuck up and you fuck up, then you're a fuckup

~ Justin Halpern

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

~ Mark Twain

No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

~ Alice Sebold

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

~ Cathy Hopkins

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

~ Michael Crichton

Vengeance is one of life's great motivators.

~ K.s. Brooks

There are moments of frustration in life. You must build good relations to support you in these moments. You must also learn to encourage yourself and decide to stay determined in life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well.God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

~ Libba Bray

Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Don't let anything get in your way.

~ Heidi Schulz

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

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be.

~ Solange Nicole

I am burning. I have to live, I have to sing, I want to transform myself into a thousand different characters and carry their life with me onto the stage where it's so bright and so dark at the same time, just knowing there are three thousand people out there longing to be swept away by the passion that's about to flood out from scarlet curtains, to this I consecrate my body and my soul, I can give no more than all of myself, I feel my heart is a throbbing engine and my voice is the valve, like a wailing train, it has to sing or blow up, there's too much fuel, too much fire, and what am I to do with this voice if I can't let it out, it's not just singing. I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me. I am in love. But not with a person. I am passionately in love with my life.

~ Ann-Marie Macdonald

The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on

~ Joseph Needham

I still watch her now, like I always did, and she watches me, her brown eyes looking out from a wolf's face. This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one.I won't let this be my last good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper cranes of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.

~ Darren Shan

Steam Lodge Song of the Sun Dance Ceremony:A voice, I will send. Hear me! The land All over, A voice I am sending! Hear me! I will live!

~ Frances Densmore

The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her.

~ Candace Bushnell

As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I’ve learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined.

~ Carlos Wallace

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

seven times down, eight times up

~ Chris Bradford

The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle, but she pushed on as fast as she could.

~ Erin Bow

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

Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.

~ Steven Brown

Being exhausted, yet keeping up the pursuit.' (Judges 8:4) Even after what I had said of wanting out, even after that humiliation, the physical exhaustion, the deep despair I felt, those words were my new marching orders. The next morning, I swung my rucksack over my shoulders and was off again.

~ Diet Eman

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

Persistence and determination are always rewarded.

~ Christine Rice

My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.

~ Ann-Marie Macdonald

Diligence and Application have their due Encouragement, even in the remotest Parts of the World, and that no Case can be so low, so despicable, or so empty of Prospect, but that an unwearied Industry will go a great way to deliver us from it, will in time raise the meanest Creature to appear again in the World, and give him a new Case for his Life.

~ Daniel Defoe

Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenacity don’t just give up. When you are at the battlefield, you do all things with a different energy!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment, tell. Perhaps it was that there was nothing she would not do, and there were so many things these people would rather die than do. Perhaps it was that they were without hope but still smiling at life, bowing gracefully and passing it by. And this Scarlett could not do. She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile. Of the sweetness and courage and unyielding pride of her friends, Scarlett saw nothing. She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.

~ Margaret Mitchell