Top 40 Determination Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.”

— Zig Ziglar

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2. “Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

3. “Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.”

— Laozi

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4. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

— Napoleon Hill

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5. “You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.”

— Saint Augustine

6. “When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.”

— Drake

7. “Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.”

— Michael Jordan

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8. “You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

9. “Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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10. “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”

— Muhammad Ali

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11. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

— Vince Lombardi

12. “Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

13. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

14. “While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

— Helen Keller

15. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

— Epictetus

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16. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”

— Colin Powell

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17. “I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”

— Charles Dickens

18. “Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”

— Pema Chödrön

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19. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

— George A. Sheehan

20. “The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

— Calvin Coolidge

21. “I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

22. “An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”

— Thomas Fuller

23. “I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.”

— Arnold Palmer

24. “If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.”

— Les Brown

25. “How long should you try? Until.”

— Jim Rohn

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26. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”

— Wilma Rudolph

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27. “There’s always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.”

— Liz Murray

28. “I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”

— Henry Miller

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29. “Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

30. “Today’s patience can transform yesterday’s discouragements into tomorrow’s discoveries. Today’s purposes can turn yesterday’s defeats into tomorrow’s determination.”

— William Arthur Ward

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

— Winston Churchill

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32. “Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.”

— Earl Nightingale

33. “Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.”

— Pema Chödrön

34. “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”

— Michael Jordan

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35. “It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”

— Ben Stein

36. “Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

37. “I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it’s just about your drive and your dream.”

— Chris Brown

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38. “What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.”

— Helen Keller

39. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

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40. “I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.”

— Napoleon Hill