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Quotes About Determination

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
~ Jimmy Carter
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
~ Kobe Bryant
You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.
~ Kurt Elling
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
~ Peter McWilliams
I have no fear of losing my life – if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
~ Steve Irwin
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
~ W. Clement Stone
Have no fear of the future.
~ Winston Churchill
"A thousand miles seems pretty far, but they've got planes and trains and cars. I'd walk to you if I had no other way."
~ Plain White T's
"Give a girl the correct footwear and she can conquer the world."
~ Bette Midler
"And though she be but little, she is fierce."
~ Shakespeare
"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
~ Bill Lyon
Don't worry, I got this (staring excitedly at her ice cream)
~ Daughter, age 4
"Life only delivers to people that create their own postal code."
~ Jelani Daniel
Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
~ Steven Wright
"A gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep."
~ Wilson Mizner
So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.
~ Chantal Sutherland
God, please help me! I can't go through
~ Damon Wayans
It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.
~ Stephen Curry
Being happy is something that each of us determines, it is not something that we find outside of yourself, it is within us and our choice.
~ Catherine Pulsifer
"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
~ Barack Obama
"No matter the number of times you fail you must be determined to succeed. You must not lose hope. Don't stop in your storm. Don't give up so easily."
~ Tony Narams
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
~ Winston Churchill
If you don't try, you will not succeed. This is true for of all things. Not succeeding is the result of not trying.
~ Japanese Proverb