Ellen Hopkins Quotes

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

You've got to live and die by your decisions.

Life doesn't just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.

Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

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

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

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

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

You shape your own destiny.