Quotes & Sayings About Determined To Succeed

It's drive and determination, because that creates talent if you're determined enough and you love something enough. The ability to do it seems to come with that, it doesn't come on its own. It's the determination to succeed that creates talent. — Melinda Bilyeu

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible. — Jackie Chan

A mind that is determined to succeed can never fail to achieve. — Harsh Malik

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed. — Rahm Emanuel

Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start driving toward St. Louis. Now, the guy in the Trujillo is doing 120 on the interstates, and the guy in the Ford is putting along at 55; but the human in the Trujillo stops in Vegas and puts all of his gas money down the hole of a blackjack table, and the determined little nuhp cruises along for days until at last he reaches his goal. It's all a matter of superior intellect and the will to succeed.
Your people talk a lot about going to the stars, but you just keep putting your money into other projects, like war and popular music and international athletic events and resurrecting the fashions of previous decades. If you wanted to go into space, you would have. — George Alec Effinger

Each day is a new chance to improve your life, and that of your family, friends and colleagues. Be positive in your outlook, honest in your dealing and determined in your efforts. You will succeed — Arthur Crandon

Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won't be denied. Nothing daunts them. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them. — Mary Kay Ash

Evil knows its time to end is soon at hand, hence why it is more than determined to succeed. — Milkweed L. Augustine

We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires - we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable outcome. We do not think of the outcome which generally comes to pass and is also favourable: we do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant to us. We have failed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us beyond it, and then if we turn round to gaze into the distance of the past, we can barely see it, so imperceptible has it become. — Marcel Proust

Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. — Swami Vivekananda

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda. — Rick Warren

Be prepared for disappointment and frustration. Be persistent and bounce back even more determined to succeed. — Paul Clitheroe

If you are determined to succeed - just remember - success is sealed in a can, it can't be bought, but it must be in your thought, for if you can - you can. — Ency Bearis

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed. — Ricky Ponting

As he grew, what he lacked in formal education, he made up for through diligent, determined reading.
The where, when, and how of reading mattered not to Abraham Lincoln, who said, "The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other thing. — Pat Williams

The trials of our lives make us strong, determined to succeed, to be different, both in body and in spirit. — J.C. Reed

Your current situation does not determine your future. Your future is determined by your decision to succeed. — Tony Robbins

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed. — Eva Longoria

Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get. — Chuck Norris

I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed. — Harriet Quimby

I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find. — Kathryn Harrison

People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well
not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through
fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long. — Sylvia Earle

When a person is determined to not just succeed but to do work that matters, the world makes room for such ambition. — Jeff Goins

Failure will not stop you if you are determined to succeed. — Jentezen Franklin

If you are unmotivated to succeed, no one can help you.
If you are determined to succeed, no one can stop you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control. — Bill Dixon

In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed. — Gloria Estefan

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke

You've got to be in a determined state in order to succeed. — Tony Robbins

When in situations of stress, we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capabilities perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail or to be wicked. When we have been weighed and found wanting, let us remember that we were measured before and were found equal to our tasks; and therefore, let us continue but with a more determined discipleship. (Ensign, Feb. 1979, 73.) — Neal Maxwell

You have to be determined on your quest for the fulfilment you need, and while you struggle, living and searching, carry a determined face, heart and spirit more than your inner perseverance.
When you're earnestly searching for a job or something valuable in thriving on this life, let determination be your mindset. Have that creativity, resourceful spirit, inquisitive behaviour and resilience matching your gut to succeed in your search. — Angelica Hopes