Unstoppable Spirit: A Powerful Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Determination

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

- Tommy Lasorda

"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

"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish."

- Chuck Norris

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

- Kevin-Prince Boateng

"I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened."

- Wilma Rudolph

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Colin Powell

"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

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

- Daisaku Ikeda

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

- Malorie Blackman

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

- George A. Sheehan

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"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

"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."

- Dan Gable

"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win."

- Patty Berg

"Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result."

- Alia Bhatt

"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

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

"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

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

- Harry Truman

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Calvin Coolidge

"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

"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination."

- Ralph Marston

"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."

- Denis Waitley

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination."

- Zig Ziglar

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything."

- Vince Lombardi

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."

- Victor Hugo

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"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

"You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things—to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."

- Edmund Hillary

"What we accomplish in the marathon of life depends tremendously on our grit—our passion and perseverance for long-term goals."

- Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."

- Orison Swett Marden

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

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

- Colin Powell

"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

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Jim Watkins

"A resolute determination is the truest wisdom."

- Napoléon I

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything."

- Vince Lombardi

"The most essential factor is persistence—the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by discouragement."

- James Whitcomb Riley

"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

"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."

- Les Brown

"What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It’s persistence. It’s making your own luck."

- Peter Diamandis

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

- Orison Swett Marden

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- FDR

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t."

- Rikki Rogers

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

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

- James Watkins

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking."

- Steve Jobs

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

- Zig Ziglar

"You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal."

- Charles Carlson

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

- General Dwight D. Eisenhower

"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

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

- Roger Bannister

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

- Bruce Lee

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

- Lou Holtz

"There’s no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to."

- Henry van Dyke

"Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure."

- Aisha Tyler

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

- Arnold Palmer

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

- Spryte Loriano

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

- Winston Churchill

"We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are."

- Tobias Wolff

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."

- Horace Mann

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck."

- Stefano Gabbana

"Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination."

- Carl von Clausewitz

"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."

- Charles Simmons

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

- Julianna Pena

"I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent."

- Rahul Dravid

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

- Man Ray

"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

"Victory is the child of preparation and determination."

- Sean Hampton

"Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that."

- Dustin Poirier

"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of."

- Bethany Hamilton

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

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

- Walter Elliot

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Tony Robbins

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."

- C.C. Scott

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

- Dolly Parton

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters."

- Jeremy Irvine

"It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated."

- J.K. Rowling

"Little by little one walks far."

- Peruvian Proverb

"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

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"You are a match for your mountain."

- Danielle Doby

"Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."

- Thomas Henry Huxley

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

- Dan Reeves

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"He conquers who endures."

- Persius

"Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself."

- Harry Potter

"Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it’s a choice."

- Mike Rowe

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become."

- Ben Herbster

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

- John C. Maxwell

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you dont, you have achieved half your failure."

- David V.A. Ambrose

"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

"Whatever we vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass."

- Mary Kay Ash

"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

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, they will say: we did it ourselves."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Walter Elliot

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"The key of persistence opens all doors closed by resistance."

- John Di Lemme

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"No pressure, no diamonds."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Keep calm and carry on."

- Winston S. Churchill

"Smile at the obstacle, for it is a bridge."

- Medusa

"It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."

- Roy Disney

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge."

- Simon Sinek

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"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

"I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream."

- Chris Brown

"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

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"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

"A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy."

- Kerry Kennedy

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."

- Anatole France

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana."

- Buddha

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

- Sam Altwoman

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

- Donovan Mitchell

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

- Margaret Wheatley

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

- Iain Duncan Smith

"Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination."

- Alex Trebek

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."

- Shirley Chisholm

"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances."

- J. Donald Walters

"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

"Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness."

- Ricky Martin

"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

"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

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"The wishbone will never replace the backbone."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."