Determination Quotes

"Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds."

- Larry Bird

"Nursing is an art, and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work."

- Florence Nightingale

"Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time."

- Bruce Springsteen

"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

- Napoleon Hill

"If destruction is your fashion, remember construction is my passion"

- Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

""I attribute my success to this; I never gave nor took any excuse.""

- Florence Nightingale

"The real workout starts when you want to stop."

- Ronnie Coleman

"Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment."

- Vince Lombardi

"Your mind will quit a thousand times before your body will."

- Reginald Red

"Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift."

- Chris Evert

"There's a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, there is a choice you have to make. We can all be masters at our craft, but you have to make a choice. What I mean by that is there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that — family time, hanging out with your friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be. There are sacrifices that come along with that."

- Kobe Bryant

""I drink forty coffees a day to stay wide awake and think, think, think about how I can fight tyrants and imbeciles. It will certainly be a poison, but a very slow poison: I have already been drinking it for seventy years and, until now, I have never experienced its sad effects on my health.""

- Voltaire

"You don’t have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined."

- Lauren Burns

"A creative man has no choice. He may come across his supreme task almost accidentally. But once the issue is joined, his task proves to be at the same time intimately related to his most personal conflicts, to his superior selective perception, and to the stubbornness of his one-way will; he must court sickness, failure, or insanity in order to test the alternative whether the established world will crush him, or whether he will disestablish a sector of this world's outworn fundaments and make place for a new one."

- Erik H. Erikson

"The Wright brothers didn’t have a wind tunnel to test their flying machines. They built a kite and got to work."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse."

- ‘The Godfather’

""If there is no wind, row.""

- Latin proverb

"I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of."

- Jimmy Connors

""Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.""

- Vince Lombardi

"That’s what a championship takes — never losing focus, commit to the goal, continue to improve mistake by mistake you make along the way"

- Steve Arhancet

"Wake up with a happy heart and a determined mind. Tuesday is yours to own."

"Dream, plan, and execute."

"I am never going to put boundaries on me ever again, I’m never going to say ‘maybe’. I’m never going to say ‘I don’t think I can’. I can and I will."

"Give it 100%"

"Be all in or get all out. There is no halfway..."

"I’m determined"

"As the weekend sun rises, may it light a fire within you to chase your dreams with determination."

"Awake with determination, go to bed with satisfaction - the Saturday mantra for success."

"On this Saturday morning, sprinkle a dash of determination on your dreams and watch them flourish."

"Overcome, adapt, and conquer—the gamer’s creed."