35 Determination Quotes Fueling Your Drive To Succeed

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

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
- Tommy Lasorda

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

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
- James N. Watkins

You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
- Charles Carlson

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

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
- Langston Hughes

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

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

Success starts with a determined mind. You can't be successful if you are not determined to achieve your goal.
- Dele Andersen

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
- Unknown

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

If we attack our problems with determination we shall succeed.
- Franklin Roosevelt

I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
- Zig Ziglar

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
- Vince Lombardi

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston S. Churchill

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

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.
- Unknown

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!
- Sarah Dessen

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
- Tony Robbins

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
- Barack Obama

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

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
- Emma Watson

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
- Og Mandino

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
- Mary Tyler Moore

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
- L.M. Montgomery

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

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination – have self-determination. It will take you very far.
- Justice Smith

The new definition of freedom today is self-determination.
- John Hope Bryant

Feel proud of your achievements, no matter how small they are, and create or renew a spark of determination within yourself so that you continue to work hard.
- Amy Pendergrass

The truth is that through sheer will and determination, these people transformed their visions into realities. Nothing was handed to them, and, more importantly, they never gave up.
- Jason Navallo

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

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
- Winston Churchill