In the journey of life, challenges are inevitable, and moments of doubt often test our resolve. It's during these times that motivation and determination become our guiding lights, propelling us forward despite the obstacles in our path. Whether you're in need of a gentle nudge or a powerful push, inspiring words have the power to reignite the flame within us. Here, we've curated a collection of the top 132 motivational determination quotes, designed to boost your spirit and fuel your drive. Let these words of wisdom be the catalyst that helps turn your aspirations into reality. Dive in, absorb the inspiration, and let these quotes remind you of the strength you possess and the limitless potential within you.
1. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” - Maya Angelou
2. “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 Churchill
3. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” - Winston S. Churchill
4. “T is not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’We are not now that strength which in old daysMov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are:One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson
5. “If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!” - Sarah Dessen
6. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” - Beverly Sills
7. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” - Vince Lombardi
8. “The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it’s treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.” - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
9. “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
10. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” - Mario Andretti
11. “It seems kind of light for a dozen books. I think it's probably that unnatural number of Jason Statham DVDs you ordered."He has to have filmed a nude scene at some point in his career. I don't care how many shoot-'em-up action movies I have to watch, I will find it," I said solemnly. "Oh, yes, I will find it.” - Molly Harper
12. “We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.” - Saul Williams
13. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” - William Faulkner
14. “Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.” - Cathy Hopkins
15. “Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.” - Cory Doctorow
16. “Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.” - Zig Ziglar
17. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” - George Eliot
18. “When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.” - Karen E. Quinones Miller
19. “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” - Langston Hughes
20. “What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.” - Jane Austen
21. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo da Vinci
22. “Vengeance is one of life's great motivators.” - K.S. Brooks
23. “The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.” - Author-Poet Aberjhani
24. “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS” - Abraham Lincoln
25. “To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I.” - Hannah Senesh
26. “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen
27. “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
28. “The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” - Sydney Smith
29. “I'd run my whole life long to reach you; paddle my way across Atlantic and Pacific; traverse Jungle and Desert to find you; climb cliffs and drop from the sky to rescue you. Anything to be close to you. Any way to say I love you.” - Heather Kristina Thomas
30. “Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.” - Jeannette Walls
31. “It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.” - Man Ray
32. “But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.” - Mark Twain
33. “But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.” - Emily Brontë
34. “Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.” - Mary Shelley
35. “Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.” - Abraham Lincoln
36. “If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.” - Claire Cook
37. “Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. "You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is not, but it is a thing that is in the blood, and it is not in yours."The foolish will always treat you badly, because they think you are not beautiful," he said, and she knew this was true. Plain Kate. She was a plain as a stick and thin as a stick and flat as a stick. Her nose was too long and her brows too strong. Her father kissed her twice, once above each brow. "We cannot help what fools think. But understand, it is your skill with a blade that draws this talk. If you want to give up your carving, you have my blessing.""I will never give it up," she answered.” - Erin Bow
38. “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
39. “Persistence and determination are always rewarded.” - Christine Rice
40. “Don't stop til you get to the top. And then break out the sledge hammer and keep on going” - Juliet C. Obodo
41. “Seven times up, eight times down” - Chris Bradford
42. “If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.” - William Faulkner
43. “I am the gatekeeper of my own destiny and I will have my glory days in the hot sun” - Nacho LIbre
44. “Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.” - T.F. Hodge
45. “If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.” - T.F. Hodge
46. “If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so.” - T.F. Hodge
47. “Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!” - T.F. Hodge
48. “The wishbone will never replace the backbone” - Will Henry
49. “When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.” - T.F. Hodge
50. “Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.” - T.F. Hodge
51. “To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.” - T.F. Hodge
52. “In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with.” - T.F. Hodge
53. “You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right” - Jack Canfield
54. “A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed.” - Solange nicole
55. “My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be.” - Solange nicole
56. “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.” - Criss Jami
57. “Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.” - Criss Jami
58. “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
59. “The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life!” - Darrell Yarbrough
60. “A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.” - Hunter S. Thompson
61. “Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.” - Aberjhani
62. “Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.” - Criss Jami
63. “seven times down, eight times up” - Chris Bradford
64. “Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.” - Archimedes
65. “I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else's. Everyone has their own river, and you don't need to swim,float,sail on their's, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I don't believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.” - C. JoyBell C.
66. “I acquired courage from the masterpieces of sages. I came of age by their instructions to keep going, even in hard times. Then I learnt not to despair, even when it seemed that my world is falling apart. I learnt to possess fortitude.” - Ogwo David Emenike
67. “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!” - Jillian Michaels
68. “Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…” - Aberjhani
69. “There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.” - Ogwo David Emenike
70. “Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight.” - Ogwo David Emenike
71. “Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.” - James A. Owen
72. “Raah mein kaante ho, to hoSada manzilon ka armaan rakhnaPankho mein zor ho, na hoMagar hauslon mein uraan rakhna” - Jyoti Arora
73. “There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.” - Jefferson Smith
74. “To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and leadyour life.” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
75. “I’ll never let go of you again,” she whispered. “I swear it.” - Dianna Hardy
76. “I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.” - Tamora Pierce
77. “I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living in me and now I enjoy ever bit of my life and hope best for rest...something beyond lovelines from Love Vs Destiny...” - Atul Purohit
78. “Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy... Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that can literally save their lives....gone through many different phases of Destines and that's what made me to pen down... hope it won't screw-up me again....Something beyond love...” - Atul Purohit
79. “The one who cannot see your vision will be blinded by your mission.” - Habeeb Akande
80. “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
81. “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
82. “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
83. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” - Helen Keller
84. “Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not.” - Steven Redhead
85. “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
86. “Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter” - Robert Greene
87. “You'll never know the the outcome unless you just go out there and just do it.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
88. “When life tries to define you with its hardship, you gotta push back, look it straight in the eye and say, ‘No matter what life throws at me, I’m going to keep telling myself that I will overcome.’ And every time you own that truth, you write your own life script.” - Nikki Rosen
89. “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
90. “I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.” - Melika Dannese Lux
91. “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
92. “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
93. “Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace….” - James A. Murphy
94. “Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.” - Robert McKee
95. “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
96. “Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.” - Habeeb Akande
97. “Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with success. There are those games which we lose, those races in which we finish last, and those promotions which never come. Such experiences provide an opportunity for us to show our determination and to rise above disappointment.” - Thomas S. Monson
98. “Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.” - Habeeb Akande
99. “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
100. “You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.” - Dr Roopleen
101. “Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.” - Dr Roopleen
102. “Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.” - Dr Roopleen
103. “To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.” - Dr Roopleen
104. “To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.” - Dr Roopleen
105. “Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.” - Dr Roopleen
106. “Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don't miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
107. “Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.” - Habeeb Akande
108. “Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” - Habeeb Akande
109. “. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.” - Karen Cushman
110. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” - Dr Roopleen
111. “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
112. “Trying is something we do when we think we can’t do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will. -- Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City” - Jemima Pett
113. “It's faith that will take you through and determination that will drive you.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
114. “A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.” - Jackson Burnett
115. “If you think training is hard...try losing.” - Davee Jones
116. “What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
117. “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
118. “Use your hater to make you greater!” - Habeeb Akande
119. “Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.” - Habeeb Akande
120. “To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.” - Criss Jami
121. “You can be anything, you want to be in this life.” - M.H. Rakib
122. “It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.” - Criss Jami
123. “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
124. “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
125. “The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.” - Mary McLeod Bethune
126. “To Succeed You Must Read” - A.J. Briscoe
127. “He came back full of life and hope and determination.” - Bram Stoker
128. “You cannot go and warn him," Saeunn said sternly. "It is too late. You would never find him.""I know," said Renn without turning her head.To herself she added, But I've still got to try.” - Michelle Paver
129. “Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.” - Lorii Myers
130. “You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.” - Justin Cotillard
131. “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
132. “A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions(...)if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life.#Page no.134” - Kazuo Ishiguro
