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Determination Quote by John Wooden

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Sam Levenson

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Walter Elliot

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Anthony Robbins

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Napoleon Hill

Stay focused, go after your dreams, and keep moving toward your goals.

LL Cool J

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

William Butler Yeats

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Bill Bradley

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Winston Churchill

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

Tommy Lasorda

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Stephen Covey

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

Unknown

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Matt Biondi

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

The only thing that can stop me, is me.

Unknown

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Christian D. Larson

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

J.P. Morgan

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Confucius

Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Muhammad Ali

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Thomas Fowell Buxton

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.

Les Brown

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

I will persist until I succeed.

Og Mandino

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!

Marvin Phillips

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

Thomas Edison

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Confucius

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

Keep your dreams alive. Understand that to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication.

Gail Devers

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

When the world says, 'Give up,' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'

Unknown

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

James N. Watkins

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Calvin Coolidge

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Dream big. Start small. Act now.

Robin Sharma

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.

Unknown

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C.S. Lewis

Don't limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.

Unknown

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Estée Lauder

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Napoleon Hill

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Richard Branson

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Michael Phelps

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Albert Einstein

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

Roy T. Bennett

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Edmund Hillary

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.

Bo Jackson

Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Dan Reeves

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Christopher Reeve

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Audrey Hepburn

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.

T.F. Hodge

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Amelia Earhart

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.

Unknown

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

H.G. Wells

Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.

Unknown

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Henry Van Dyke