Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

We want everybody to be bossed up.

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

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

I'm all about owning your life.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it.

I like to be in control of my own destiny.

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

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

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

I enjoy making the decisions.

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

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

He is great enough that is his own master.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

For me, nothing is given.