Top 200 Determination Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Zig Ziglar

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2. “I didn’t come here to be average.”

— Michael Jordan

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3. “Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”

— Napoleon Hill

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4. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

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5. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

— Venus Williams

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6. “Be phenomenal or be forgotten!”

— Eric Thomas

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7. “Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.”

— Les Brown

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8. “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

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9. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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10. “Going that one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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11. “You can do it if you believe you can.”

— Napoleon Hill

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12. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

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14. “Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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15. “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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16. “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”

— John Wooden

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17. “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.”

— Lady Gaga

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18. “No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.”

— Henry Rollins

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19. “From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body. I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done, so the challenge appealed to me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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20. “DO WHAT YOU CAN’T”

— Casey Neistat

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21. “I’m a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can’t see any other way of accomplishing anything.”

— Michael Jordan

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22. “Those times when you get up early and you work hard; those times when you stay up late and you work hard; those times when you don’t feel like working, you’re too tired, you don’t want to push yourself, but you do it anyway; that is actually the dream. That’s the dream. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”

— Kobe Bryant

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23. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

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24. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”

— Amelia Earhart

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25. “The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

— Nolan Bushnell

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26. “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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27. “You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.”

— Elon Musk

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

— Laozi

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29. “I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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30. “Some day I won’t be able to do this. The right time is now.”

— Casey Neistat

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31. “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

— Nelson Mandela

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32. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.”

— Michael Jordan

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33. “There’s always a way – if you’re committed.”

— Tony Robbins

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34. “Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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35. “We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.”

— Vince Lombardi

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36. “We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.”

— Jeff Bezos

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37. “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.”

— Simon Sinek

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38. “A dream is only a dream until you decide to make it real.”

— Harry Styles

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39. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

— Michelangelo

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40. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Confucius

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41. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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42. “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”

— Dean Karnazes

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43. “If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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44. “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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45. “I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.”

— Jay-Z

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46. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”

— Catherine Cook

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47. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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48. “Work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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49. “If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You’re 100% better.”

— Ken Carter

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50. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”

— Jennifer Lee

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