Gary Johnson Quotes

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

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.

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

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

I can't change what casting directors do or what producers do. I can only change what I do.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

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

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

You shape your own destiny.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

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.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.