Top 200 Determination Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.”

— Tony Robbins

102. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

103. “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

104. “You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

105. “You want something? Go get it.”

— Will Smith

106. “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

107. “If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

— Barack Obama

108. “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”

— Thomas A. Edison

109. “My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”

— Michael Jordan

110. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

— Will Smith

111. “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

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

113. “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

— Jacob August Riis

114. “Without a goal, you can’t score.”

— Casey Neistat

115. “I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”

— Vince Lombardi

116. “Opportunities Don’t Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!”

— Greg Plitt

117. “At the end of pain is SUCCESS!”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Helen Keller

119. “I’m chasing perfection.”

— Kobe Bryant

120. “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

121. “Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Colin Powell

123. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

— Vince Lombardi

124. “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

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

— Epictetus

126. “Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

— Ben Carson

127. “Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.”

— Napoleon Hill

128. “You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

— Jack London

129. “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

130. “Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself is, ‘Are all the disciplines that I’m currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?’”

— Jim Rohn

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

— George A. Sheehan

132. “Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.”

— Joel Osteen

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

— Pema Chödrön

134. “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

— Helen Keller

135. “The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph.”

— Nick Vujicic

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

— Calvin Coolidge

137. “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.”

— Frank Sinatra

138. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

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

— Thomas Fuller

140. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

— Oprah Winfrey

141. “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

142. “Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.”

— Swami Vivekananda

143. “I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.”

— Kobe Bryant

144. “Remember your dreams and fight for them.”

— Paulo Coelho

145. “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

146. “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

— Mary Kay Ash

147. “Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it – and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.”

— Wilma Mankiller

148. “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

149. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

— Newt Gingrich

150. “Most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it badly enough. You just kind of want it. You don’t want it more than you want to party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep.”

— Eric Thomas