Quotes about Determination
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
- Thomas a Kempis
Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.
- Charles Swindoll
If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.
- Sam Walton
The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.
- John Maxwell
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.
- Bruce Lee
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.
- John Maxwell
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
- Walt Disney
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
- Les Brown
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
- Jonathan Edwards
When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.
- Zig Ziglar