logo

Quotes About Determination

All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
~ George Eliot
You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
~ Warren G. Bennis
Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.
~ Ally Condie, Matched
For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.
~ Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic
Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.
~ Markus Zusak
You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
He who does not walk against the arrows cannot talk about the strength of his shield!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
~ L. W Rogers
On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.
~ William Avery
I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.
~ Robert De Niro
Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.
~ Barack Obama
I will not live the rest of my life in regret.
~ Penny Chenery Secretariat
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
~ Mason Cooley
A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.
~ Jodi Picoult, The Pact
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
~ Andre Gide
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
~ Audre Lorde
God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!
~ Arthur Guiterman
If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination
~ Nigel Worthington
My hatred gives me strength.
~ Janet Fitch
One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.
~ Joe Hyams
Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.
~ Jimmy Rollins