Quotes About Determination

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

— Tommy Lasorda

"If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing."

— Brad Szollose

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

— George Bernard Shaw

"It is of the most beautiful compensation of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

— Napoleon Hill

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

— Malcolm X

"Don't let other people tell you what you want."

— Pat Riley

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Vince Lombardi

"Love teaches even asses to dance."

— French Proverb

"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfils the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form."

— Albert Einstein

"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

— Robert Stevenson

"Give me a place to stand and I can move mountains."

— Aristotle

"You can stumble and fall, make errors and mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming others, including fate, for your results. Always believe there is a positive to be found in the negative. Things usually happen for a reason, even when you are unable to discern the reason. Remember, there is a special providence even in the fall of a sparrow."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances."

— Bruce Barton

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

— Winston S. Churchill

"If you can imagine it. You can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

— William Ward

"It's not what happens to you, but what you do about it that makes the difference."

— W Mitchell

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible."

— General Erwin Rommel

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

— Zig Zigglar

"Optimism is faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

— Helen Keller

"We don't have to be smarter than the rest; we have to be more disciplined that the rest."

— Warren Buffett

"Feel the fear and do it anyway."

— Susan Jeffers

"What doesn't kill me makes you stronger."

— Fredrich Nietzsche

"There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment and the hope of reward."

— John Wilson

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

— Martin Luther King Jnr.

"Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."

— Blaise Pascal

"There are no secrets to success it is the results of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

— Colin Powell

"Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavour and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us."

— Albert Einstein

"The most important investment you can make is in yourself."

— Anonymous

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Instead of counting your days, make your days count."

— Unknown

"Those who are not looking for happiness are most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Employ the 90/10 rule. When 90 percent of the circumstances are uncontrollable, focus on the 10 percent you can do something about."

— Bob Gass

"God answers all prayers. Sometimes his answer is no, when his answer is no, we don't immediately understand, but in due course we will understand and be grateful he said no."

— Attoh-Dedei

"Dedication and passion can overcome any obstacle."

— Unknown

"I know God will not give me anything I cannot handle. I just wish he didn't trust me with so much"

— Mother Teresa

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you will land among stars."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

— Marcus Aurelius

"The moment somebody says to me, this is very risky, is the moment it becomes attractive to me."

— Kate Capshaw

"Little strokes fell mighty trees"

— Benjamin Franklin

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

— Orison Swett Marden

"We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough .. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."

— Katherine Mansfield

"Never consider yourself a victim. When you think you are a victim, you have given control of your life to someone else. You may not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances."

— Codolezza Rice