Determination Quotes

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

— Walter Elliot

"Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: it is this that distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

— Thomas Carlyle

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

— John Quincy Adams

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."

— Colin Powell

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."

— Marie Curie

"Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction."

— Unknown

"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

"If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing."

— Leona Lewis

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

— Harry S. Truman

"My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation."

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

— John Quincy Adams

"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."

— Margaret J. Wheatley

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

— Alfred North Whitehead

"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

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

— Gail Devers

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

— Calvin Coolidge

"My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones."

— Agnetha Faltskog

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

— John Steinbeck

"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."

— Ayrton Senna

"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."

— Joseph Addison

"Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct."

— Paula Abdul

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."

— Lord Chesterfield

"The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted."

— Gregor Mendel

"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours."

— Orison Swett Marden

"Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals."

— Paul J. Meyer

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

— Mario Andretti

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."

— Tony Robbins

"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."

— Barack Obama

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

— Martha Washington

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

— Helen Keller

"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both."

— Vaclav Havel

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