16 Inspiring Quotes About Determination

I recently wrote about the power of determination. The fact is, determination is essential for success. You might have all the resources you need, but without determination, it will be difficult for you to achieve your goal.

Below are 16 inspiring quotes about determination that I have found. They have inspired me, and I hope they will also inspire you. Enjoy!

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenens

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve

What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

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

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown

You cannot fail unless you quit.
Abraham Lincoln

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

16 Comments

  1. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” Almost a mantra to me personally. Everything that has ever mattered in my life has been MUCH more difficult to achieve than I was told/understood that it would be. To find success and peace in our lives we’ve got to fail seven times and stand up eight. Thanks for the great post!

    • “Everything that has ever mattered in my life has been MUCH more difficult to achieve than I was told/understood that it would be.”
      I agree; that has been my experience as well. Thanks for sharing, Drew!

  2. Incredible post, just by reading it, i’m full of hope.

  3. Great stuff. A daily dosage of these quotes will propel you to the next level. Incredible write up. Thank You Donald.

  4. Hi Donad, thanks a lot for the quotes..truly inspiring..

  5. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how
    close they were to success when they gave up.” I’m seriously running with this one. thank u sir Donald for this great work. ExceedingGrace

  6. Owen Michael Allen
    Owen Michael Allen

    I like your stuff Donald. I also a follower of Jesus. Jesus had many followers who now lead by their example. I thank GOD for that. I thank you also. I am on my personal mission and will keep you informed. I am talking a life mission, and I am recovering from absolute life crash. Prison, homelessness, unemployment, happened in a flash. I have said Jesus had a rope around my ankle as I was dangling over the edge looking into the pits of HELL. It is very real. Nobody is there yet but they will be. So you know I receive your stuff and your Christian stuff, thankyou. I draw strength from reading and being connected. I have my favourite sayings,” NEVER GIVE UP”, and “WINNERS NEVER QUIT and QUITTERS NEVER WIN “. Shalom, might meet you in the air at Rapture.

  7. Owen Michael Allen
    Owen Michael Allen

    Hey Donald I hadn’t signed up for your Christian news letter, but I have now, thanks. Michael.

  8. Awesome quotes n inspiring at the same time .Thanks .

  9. By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon

    This is the best one of the bunch because it’s incredibly visual.

    I could literally see it in front of my eyes.

    Mark
    LiveLoveLaughBeHappy.com

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