Determination Quotes

Making a decision takes a moment, living a decision takes a life-time.

~ Sherif A. El-Mawardy

I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.

~ Lorii Myers

Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.

~ Lorii Myers

As long as you stay determined, you will stay focused and you will succeed

~ Carol Bell

Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually reading any of my work for that matter. Still I will continue to write regardless. I suppose it is similar to people who talk just to hear their own voice. I write simply to see my own thoughts in print.

~ Andrew James Pritchard

The very least among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will.

~ Bryant Mcgill

He came back full of life and hope and determination.

~ Bram Stoker

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.

~ Rebecca Donovan

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

~ Jane Austen

You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to.

~ Moveena Rasheed

It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

~ Paulo Coelho

Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

~ Georgette Heyer

Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.

~ Habeeb Akande

You can be anything, you want to be in this life.

~ M.h. Rakib

The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

~ Paul Graham

If there’s any girl in the world more determined than you, I’ve yet to meet her.

~ Chloe Gadsby-Jones

I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.

~ Melika Dannese Lux

The ox was bad enough, Mina thought as she checked out the damage to her vegetables, yet now I have goats to torment me. However, if the goru was like the king, then the goats must be like the political parties, so maybe in the end her life won’t be so different after all? Yet she had to make sure that it would be different this time somehow, at least for Sidip’s sake, if for no other reason.

~ Andrew James Pritchard

Deb shoots Deano a hard look and grits her teeth so hard she snaps the end of her cigar which flies out the window.Mac orders, “Deb, stop!”Deb says, “It’s just a scratch. I’ll worry about it later.

~ David Mckoy

I’ll never let go of you again,” she whispered. “I swear it.

~ Dianna Hardy

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

~ Tamora Pierce

Determination could easily become obsession.

~ N.k. Jemisin

In middle school I played against you once. And lost. I was so frustrated that I continued practicing even after I retired... And then when I entered high school, hell yeah, I laughed. The guy I vowed to defeat no matter what was standing right in front of me as one of my own teammates. But now it's pointless to hold a grudge. Rather, I wanted to make you recognize me. (Takao Kazunari)

~ Tadatoshi Fujimaki

. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.

~ Karen Cushman

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

~ Habeeb Akande

Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.

~ Habeeb Akande

Indeed His blessings are in the struggle.

~ Habeeb Akande

Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen.

~ Steven Redhead

The one who cannot see your vision will be blinded by your mission.

~ Habeeb Akande

There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

~ Anthony Liccione

I am not going to let him win, Guillaume. Not this time. I could not keep him from making my mother pay the price for our failed rebellion. Fifteen years she has been his prisoner, fifteen years! And she is his prisoner, for all that she no longer wants for a queen’s comforts. I have had to submit to his demands and subject myself to his whims and endure the indignity of having him brandish the crown before me as he would tease a dog with a bone. But no more. I will not let him rob me of my birthright, and I will not let him keep me from honoring my vow to defend the Holy Land. I do think he is behind that very opportune rebellion in my duchy, and I would not put it past him to be conniving with the Count of Toulouse, either. And if by chance he did not, it is only because he did not think of it. No, a reckoning is long overdue, and we will have it at Bonsmoulins.

~ Sharon Kay Penman

In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.

~ Jon Meacham

He couldn't think of a good place. At first he thought she hated all living beings equally. Lately he had come to believe he held a special place in her heart, just below rattlesnakes, pederasts, and spirochetes. Definitely a tough place to start from, but determination had always been Conal's strong point.

~ John Varley

She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the journey, but there was also great beauty. She'd seen it standing on rooftops and in green eyes and in the smallest, ugliest rock.

~ Veronica Rossi

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

~ Honoré De Balzac

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

~ Harry Houdini

Never lose hope, though everything's bleak, though you feel so weak. Never shrink back, never look back, especially when you know that you're fighting for the right reasons, for the right people.

~ Jawe Querimit

A man's measure is his will.

~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib