Determination Quotes

I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education help develop conviction about the need to change & increase your commitment. Conviction then develops into determination. Next, strong determination leads to action: a sustained effort to implement the changes. This final factor of effort is critical.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.

My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Frodo: Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone. Sam: Of course you are, and I’m coming with you!

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

Fight to the last gasp.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

Stick to your dreams and determine that you're going to make them come true.

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.

It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.

I was determined to know beans.

My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

This lady is not for turning.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Battles are won in the hearts of men.

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don’t have the money, but you’re creative and determined enough, you’ll find the way.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am.

COMMITMENT is the first step to every good thing I know, and the only step that matters when it comes to achievement. It inspires and attracts people, shows them you have conviction and goals, that you are focused and determined. And the commitment that is based on values will endure. Any time you make choices based on solid life values, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

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

The word impossible is not French.

I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.