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Quotes About Determination

Don't look back! For a bright future is ahead of you.
~ Joel Brown
But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.
~ Gina McCarthy
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.
~ Charles Bukowski
The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
~ Lou Gramm
It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.
~ Philippa Gregory
When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.
~ Nido R Qubein
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
~ Abigail Adams
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
~ Barbara Hershey
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
~ Ben Bernanke
The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.
~ Leonard Peikoff
That's what you taught me - we don't have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.
~ Darren Shan
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.
~ zelda popkin
It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.
~ Katherine Marsh
When we get to the future, I'll decide the future.
~ Unknown
But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.
~ George W. Bush
It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
~ Seth Godin
Your past determines your future unless you're clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.
~ John de Ruiter
Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.
~ John Eliot
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
~ John Frederick Boyes