Determination Quotes

"The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination."

- Bill Rancic

"Willpower, strength and determination, it will take you places."

- Julianna Pena

"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

"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."

- Iain Duncan Smith

"The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."

- James Whitcomb Riley

"Americans deserve a president who confronts the daily challenges facing working people with the same determination and steady leadership they apply to addressing the most serious crises facing our nation."

- Kamala Harris

"Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters."

- Ezra Taft Benson

"Determination Over Negativity is a belief that anything is possible no matter who you are or where you come from."

- Donovan Mitchell

"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them."

- Man Ray

"Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan."

- Paul J. Meyer

"Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do."

- Fred Saberhagen

"To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players."

- LeBron James

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

- George A. Sheehan

"You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far."

- Malorie Blackman

"The determination to win is the better part of winning."

- Daisaku Ikeda

"The thing you can't measure is someone's heart, someone's desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that's something you can't measure. That's something you can't measure about Rod Smith."

- Shannon Sharpe

"We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government."

- Andrew Jackson

"Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member."

- George Herbert Mead

"Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute."

- Zig Ziglar

"Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness."

- Reid Hoffman

"A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- James Watkins

"You don’t have to get it perfect; you just have to get it going. Babies don’t walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right."

- Jack Canfield

"In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle."

- Garth Stein

"Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired."

- Robert Strauss

"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

"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."

- Benjamin Franklin

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there."

- Zig Ziglar

"Every great story happened when someone decided not to give up."

- Spryte Loriano

"We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history."

- Sonia Johnson