Quotes About Determination

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn't mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself.