Hilary Swank Quotes

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

I think a lot of people miss out on opportunities, they miss out on achieving their dream, and they miss out on doing what they love to do because they're allowing something else, something outside of them and outside of God, to dictate what their life's going to look like.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

I can't fight forever. I've gotta fight and secure my future and decide what I'm gonna do with my life.

My dad said: Now Teddy, you have to make up your mind whether you want to have a constructive and positive attitude and influence on your time. And if you're not interested in a purposeful, useful, constructive life, I just want you to know I have other children that are out there that intend to have a purposeful and constructive life. And so you have to make up your mind about which direction you're going to go. I remember getting - climbing into bed and staring at the ceiling for a good time, but the night hadn't been over when it was very clear to me what kind of life I wanted to lead.

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

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.

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

The small day-to-day decisions will determine the course of your lives.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.