Terry McMillan Quotes

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

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

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

You can only control your own destiny.

I'm all about owning your life.

I can control my destiny; I control my life.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

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

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

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

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

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.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

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!

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.