Determination Quotes

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Tennessee Williams

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey and make the most of it.

Ugo Betti

Fall seven times stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness but with energy and above all with illusions I pulled through them all.

Honoré de Balzac

Man is both determined and self-determining.

Stein and Vidichon

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Those who live are those who fight.

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

Napoléon Bonaparte

If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.

Lord Chesterfield

You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.

Victory - a matter of staying power.

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare confess it to themselves.

Anonymous

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.

Bible

You may lose many things in the way you have chosen, don't look back but serve your purpose.

The future glory far outweigh the present troubles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes GOD places walls NOT to hold us back, but to test our determination

You must have a strong will and determined spirit to fight any form of oppression.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find new strength to accomplish your daily work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A lot of profanities begin with "F". Word "failure" is one of them.

Veronica Purcell

With determination and hard work, you will grow to a position capable of advising others.

A determined soul can never be defeated in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Feeling like, life has been so unfair to me, but what can I say except, "I'm still here." So I'm determined to make the best out of it, take every opportunity as a blessing, and live the rest of my life to the fullest.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Do you know invisible determination and effort will always accomplish visible distinction and excellence?

Divine possibilities; visions, dreams and goals.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The world of possibilities await the person who dares.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Rightly onward, pursue your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord I am willing to walk with you, take my hand.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are strong enough to overcome the situation!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never be defined by what has happened to you in the past, it was just a life lesson, not a life sentence. ~ Donald Pillai

If you can train yourself to be actionable instead of reactionary, you will break out of the negative space that is typically furnished with fear, uncertainty and inaction, and move into that peaceful zone of determination, power, decisiveness and growth. Life will become less complicated.

Be determined enough to live for your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t give up. Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. There is a time for the fulfillment of your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I need coffee to deal with this, and I’m not getting decaf.

Matthew Arnold Stern

Determination could easily become obsession.

In middle school I played against you once. And lost. I was so frustrated that I continued practicing even after I retired... And then when I entered high school, hell yeah, I laughed. The guy I vowed to defeat no matter what was standing right in front of me as one of my own teammates. But now it's pointless to hold a grudge. Rather, I wanted to make you recognize me. (Takao Kazunari)

Tadatoshi Fujimaki

. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Indeed His blessings are in the struggle.

Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.

Richelle E. Goodrich

You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen.

The one who cannot see your vision will be blinded by your mission.

There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

Anthony Liccione

I am not going to let him win, Guillaume. Not this time. I could not keep him from making my mother pay the price for our failed rebellion. Fifteen years she has been his prisoner, fifteen years! And she is his prisoner, for all that she no longer wants for a queen’s comforts. I have had to submit to his demands and subject myself to his whims and endure the indignity of having him brandish the crown before me as he would tease a dog with a bone. But no more. I will not let him rob me of my birthright, and I will not let him keep me from honoring my vow to defend the Holy Land. I do think he is behind that very opportune rebellion in my duchy, and I would not put it past him to be conniving with the Count of Toulouse, either. And if by chance he did not, it is only because he did not think of it. No, a reckoning is long overdue, and we will have it at Bonsmoulins.

Sharon Kay Penman

In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.

He couldn't think of a good place. At first he thought she hated all living beings equally. Lately he had come to believe he held a special place in her heart, just below rattlesnakes, pederasts, and spirochetes. Definitely a tough place to start from, but determination had always been Conal's strong point.

She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the journey, but there was also great beauty. She'd seen it standing on rooftops and in green eyes and in the smallest, ugliest rock.

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