Determination Quotes

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. (Harry S. Truman)
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.-Colin Powell. View quote
Colin Powell
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. View quote
Man Ray
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor. View quote
Cory Doctorow
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. View quote
Thomas Fuller
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? View quote
Henry James
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. View quote
Rahul Dravid
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart. View quote
Learned Hand
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. View quote
Horace Mann
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination. (George C. Marshall)
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. View quote
Og Mandino
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway and I would disapprove of it. View quote
Colm Tóibín
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination. View quote
Alex Trebek
It's important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realize that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. View quote
Tony Blair
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? View quote
Pierre Loti
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. View quote
Peter Arnett
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan. View quote
Paul J. Meyer
I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes. (Ruud Gullit)
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. View quote
Les Brown
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member. View quote
George Herbert Mead