Top 200 Determination Quotes
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51. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

— Napoleon Hill

52. “Everybody has a dream, but not everybody has a grind.”

— Eric Thomas

53. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”

— Jesse Owens

55. “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

— William Arthur Ward

56. “Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.”

— Michael Jordan

57. “A goal without a deadline is just a dream.”

— Robert Herjavec

58. “To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.”

— Stephen R. Covey

59. “Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.”

— Robin S. Sharma

60. “You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”

— Brian Tracy

61. “What you do today determines who you will be tomorrow.”

— John Spence

62. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas A. Edison

63. “I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

— Michael Jordan

64. “Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it does!”

— Les Brown

65. “Effort is grossly underrated.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

66. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”

— Earl Nightingale

67. “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

68. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

— George E. Woodberry

69. “Never believe anyone who tells you that you don't deserve what you want.”

— Taylor Swift

70. “There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.”

— James Allen

71. “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

— Edward Everett Hale

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

— Drake

73. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”

— David Goggins

74. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

— Muhammad Ali

75. “The road to success is through commitment.”

— Will Smith

76. “Man is not made for defeat.”

— Ernest Hemingway

77. “If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?”

— Jim Carrey

78. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

— Peter Marshall

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

— Saint Augustine

80. “Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.”

— Demi Lovato

81. “Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

82. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

83. “Do what others refuse to do.”

— Grant Cardone

84. “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

85. “Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.”

— Jerry Rice

86. “Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

88. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

— Randy Pausch

89. “There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.”

— Will Smith

90. “Don’t settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.”

— Joel Osteen

91. “The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.”

— John C. Maxwell

92. “Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.”

— Zig Ziglar

93. “My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”

— Og Mandino

94. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

— Vincent van Gogh

95. “Think about it: What’s the worst thing that can happen to you if you just totally go for it?”

— Grant Cardone

96. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

— Babe Ruth

97. “To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”

— Abdul Kalam

98. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

— Vince Lombardi

99. “Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

— Calvin Coolidge

100. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt