Determination Quotes

"Self-discipline is doing what’s right instead of doing what you feel like doing. That’s the meaning of self-disciple."

- Eliud Kipchoge

"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Teller

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

- Sophia Loren

"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."

- Ethel Merman

"Work hard, do the best you can, don’t ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you."

- Noel Coward

"Everybody has their own path. But with conviction and discipline you can make anything happen."

- Sonya Tayeh

"Just make it happen. Figure out a way to do it and work really hard."

- Casey Nicholaw

"If you gauge how you’re doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you’re up a creek. You can’t do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work… And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardless of how people are responding, tell the story."

- Billy Porter

"You don't have to be the biggest or strongest, just the most determined."

- Jackie Robinson

"Swing for the fences, but respect the grind of every single."

- Hank Aaron

"A will finds a way."

- Orison Swett Marden

"Democracy requires both discipline and hard work. It is not easy for individuals to govern themselves. . . . It is one thing to gain freedom, but no one can give you the right to self-government. This you must earn for yourself by long discipline."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you train to be the best on the worst possible day, you’ll perform you best in any possible situation"

- Sahil M

"Getting started is the easy part. The difficult part is the struggle to keep going when you are not motivated. Get back up because it takes commitment, discipline, and sacrifice to get to where you are trying to go."

- Germany Kent

""Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.""

- Peter F. Drucker

""Stay the course. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.""

- John Bogle

"Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it."

- Benjamin Graham

"The best way to stick to your financial plan is to have a financial plan worth sticking to."

- Morgan Housel

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing."

- Vince Lombardi

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"The genius thing that we did was, we didn’t give up."

- Jay-Z

"You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever."

- Jay-Z

"The most important words a man can say are, “I will do better.” These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say. The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says “journey before destination.” Some may call it a simple platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one."

- Brandon Sanderson

"Your hard work and perseverance are paving the way for a bright future. Keep pushing forward."

"Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do."

"If at first you don’t succeed, try something you’ve already been successful at and become masterful at it."

"Knock, knock, knock, seek, seek, seek, ask, ask, ask until a door opens and welcomes you in."

"No one ever regretted pushing a little harder."

"I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it."

"I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company."