Determination Quotes

"Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible."

- Ronda Rousey

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

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

- Margaret Wheatley

"Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more."

- Tim Grover

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or leading to do."

- Pele

"Nothing is going to be handed to you. You have to make things happen."

- Florence Griffith Joyner

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

- Winston Churchill

"America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination."

- Harry S. Truman

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination"

- Tommy Lasorda

"Run so hard you come in with bloody feet and missing toenails."

- Rob de Castella

"Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder."

- Sam Altwoman

"Good basketball always starts with good defense!"

- Bobby Knight

"Talent may get you on the field, but it's effort & attitude that will keep you there"

- Ken Griffey Jr.

"You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."

- Pat Riley

"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There's no such thing as 'life in-between'."

- Pat Riley

"Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week."

- Jay-Z

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"It's not the will to win that matters. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Everyone can have a great dream, but in the end, the only thing that counts is to have great determination to make that dream come true!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Determination is the power that sees us through all our frustration and obstacles. It helps in building our willpower which is the very basis of success."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Dreams are not those which come while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them"

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

""If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.""

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Never let the odds prevent you from doing what you know deep down in your heart you were meant to do."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"I still have game. It's whether or not the body can do it."

- Tiger Woods