Garrison Keillor Quotes

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

If the world does not please you, you can change it.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

I did not want to later look back in my life and say, 'Why would you not make times change?'

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Nothing happens until you decide.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.