Will And Determination Quotes:

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Motivational, Simple, Will And Determination, Risk It, Chances Are

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie, J. Oliver Crom, Michael A. Crom (2003). “The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

topic: Success, Persistence, Will And Determination, Inspirational Hard Work, Sure Thing

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

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

source: Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes”

topic: Life, Determination, Want, Will And Determination, Harlem Renaissance

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

topic: Motivational, Perseverance, Determination, Life Determination, Motivation And Determination

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Self Determination, Try Again

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Determination, Will And Determination

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

- Jacob August Riis

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Determination And Persistence, Will And Determination

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

- Bruce Lee

source: "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Determination, Martial Arts Inspirational, Inspirational Determination

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Success, About Success

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Pushing On, Solved Problems

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Perserverance, Just Give Up

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Trying, Achieve, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Determination, Make The Right Choice, Make The Right Decision

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

source: Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

topic: Motivational, Perseverance, Determination, Self Determination, Inspirational Determination

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

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

- Anatole France

source: Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiration And Motivation

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

- William James

topic: Running, Perseverance, Inspirational Sports, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost

source: North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Self Determination, Inspiration And Motivation

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Determination, Life Determination, Drive And Determination

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Race, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

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

- Roger Bannister

source: "The Spirituality Of Running" by Jim Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2016.

topic: Motivational, Success, Fitness, Hurt And Pain, Hurt Pain

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

- Alexander Graham Bell

source: "Making a Habit of Success: How to Make a Habit of Succeeding, How to Win With High Self-Esteem". Book by MacK R. Douglas (p. 45), 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Inspirational Perseverance, Motivation And Determination

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Motivational, Strong, Determination, Strong Determination, Life Determination

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination, Life Determination, Motivational Achievement

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

- Robert Hughes

topic: Motivational, Perseverance, Determination, Inspirational Determination, Life Determination

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

- Carl von Clausewitz

topic: Determination, Military, Persistence, Motivation And Determination, Decisive Action

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

source: As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

topic: Positive, Monday, Motivation, Inspirational Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Self Determination, Marathon Motivational

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

- Ozwald Boateng

topic: Dream, Hard Work, Reality, Pursue Your Dreams, Dreams Can Come True

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Tattoo, Inspirational Determination, Latin Phrases

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

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Best Of Me, Best Coaches

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

- Claude M. Bristol

topic: Determination, Effort, Resistance, Inspirational Determination, Obstacle In Life

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Advice, Action, Self Determination, Importunate, Trying Something New

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

source: Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

topic: Motivational, Determination, Giving Up, Determination And Persistence, Will And Determination

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Steps, Steps Forward, Discarded, Success Failure, Will And Determination

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

- Jacob August Riis

topic: Rocks, Cracks, Looks, Will And Determination

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

- Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

topic: Determination, Differences, Victory, Motivation And Determination, Will And Determination

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

topic: Determination, Differences, People, Inspirational Determination, People Can Change

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

- Denis Waitley

topic: Determination, Giving, Spite, Self Determination, Inspirational Determination

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

- Charles Simmons

source: Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.513

topic: Determination, Might, Motivation And Determination, Will And Determination, Determination Motivational

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Eye, Goal, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

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

- George Horace Lorimer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Determination, Motivation And Determination

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Self Determination, Fear None