Top 200 Determination Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

152. “How long should you try? Until.”

— Jim Rohn

153. “Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Wilma Rudolph

155. “Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.”

— Dwayne Johnson

156. “Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”

— Napoleon Hill

157. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”

— Virat Kohli

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Earl Nightingale

161. “Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment.”

— Tony Robbins

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

— Henry Miller

163. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Ben Stein

166. “Run hard, be strong, think big!”

— Percy Cerutty

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

— Pema Chödrön

168. “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

169. “I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.”

— Swami Vivekananda

170. “Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Suzy Kassem

172. “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

173. “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

174. “Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.”

— Alex Ferguson

175. “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

176. “If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

— Dale Carnegie

177. “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

178. “No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.”

— Elon Musk

179. “Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”

— Ben Carson

180. “Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.”

— Dwayne Johnson

181. “When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.”

— Robin S. Sharma

182. “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”

— Earl Nightingale

183. “I plead with you – never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”

— Pope John Paul II

184. “Your family is depending on you. There’s no better reason to bring your A-game all the time.”

— Grant Cardone

185. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

186. “Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That’s how they expand.”

— Robin S. Sharma

187. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

— Elon Musk

188. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

189. “Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”

— Jim Rohn

190. “Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”

— Ralph Marston

191. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Ryan Blair

192. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

— Walter Bagehot

193. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.””

— Muhammad Ali

194. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

195. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb

196. “The best revenge is massive success.”

— Frank Sinatra

197. “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ”

— B. F. Skinner

198. “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

— Seneca

199. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”

— Jim Rohn

200. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”

— Vince Lombardi