68 Quotes On Determination

In the journey of life, determination serves as the driving force that propels us forward, transforming dreams into reality and challenges into victories. It is this unwavering tenacity that sees us through the darkest nights and the toughest trials. In celebrating this indomitable human spirit, we have curated a powerful collection of 68 quotes on determination. These words of wisdom, from some of the world's most inspiring figures, offer not only motivation but also a reminder of the strength that lies within each of us. Whether you're on the verge of a new venture or pushing through a tough season, let these quotes inspire and fuel your resolve, guiding you on the path to success and fulfillment.

1. “Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.” - Bill Wilson

2. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” - Barack Obama

3. “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

4. “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

5. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” - Beverly Sills

6. “A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.” - Michael Crichton

7. “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

8. “Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.” - Robert Strauss

9. “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

10. “People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!” - Steve Maraboli

11. “It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.” - George Eliot

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

18. “Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.” - Stephen M. Irwin

19. “When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.” - Rodolfo Costa

20. “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

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

22. “Nearly all men have weak hearts, in one way or another.” - Steven J. Carroll

23. “Persistence and determination are always rewarded.” - Christine Rice

24. “I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.” - Homer Hickam

25. “If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.” - William Faulkner

26. “The wishbone will never replace the backbone” - Will Henry

27. “Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.” - T.F. Hodge

28. “You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” - Abraham Lincoln

29. “In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.” - Criss Jami

30. “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.” - Criss Jami

31. “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

32. “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

33. “The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life!” - Darrell Yarbrough

34. “[L]asting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will. . . . This isn't to say that a young man can't hope to be seized by love. . . . But whether the sheer fury of a man's feelings accurately gauges their likely endurance is another question. The ardor will surely fade, sooner or later, and the marriage will then live or die on respect, practical compatibility, simple affection, and (these days, especially) determination. With the help of these things, something worthy of the label 'love' can last until death. But it will be a different kind of love from the kind that began the marriage. Will it be a richer love, a deeper love, a more spiritual love? Opinions vary. But it's certainly a more impressive love.” - Robert Wright

35. “Darling it may be a long time before we see one another again. But I want you to know. Every time I’ve said I love you- I meant it. There’s no two ways about it. The crew was talking about what’s ahead of us, but we all agreed on one thing. We’re coming back.” - Kara Martinelli

36. “One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage.” - Criss Jami

37. “You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” - Harper Lee

38. “Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life.” - Ogwo David Emenike

39. “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

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

41. “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

42. “Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not.” - Steven Redhead

43. “Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I believe I can achieve something in my life.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

44. “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

45. “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

46. “Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.” - Aberjhani

47. “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

48. “Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.” - Habeeb Akande

49. “You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.” - Dr Roopleen

50. “Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.” - Dr Roopleen

51. “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

52. “It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.” - Dr Roopleen

53. “The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

54. “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

55. “There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.” - Anthony Liccione

56. “It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.” - Rebecca Donovan

57. “Use your hater to make you greater!” - Habeeb Akande

58. “I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.” - Whitney M. Young Jr.

59. “It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.” - Criss Jami

60. “The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up.” - Habeeb Akande

61. “To Succeed You Must Read” - A.J. Briscoe

62. “He came back full of life and hope and determination.” - Bram Stoker

63. “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

64. “If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

65. “Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.” - Lorii Myers

66. “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

67. “You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring.” - Justin Cotillard

68. “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