John C. Maxwell Quotes

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

A person takes his own path. My father tried to guide me the best way he thought I should go, and it didn't work. I went the way I wanted to.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's really no right or wrong way to do things. Everybody has a way they think you should do it. So why not do it your way, you know what I mean, respectfully.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

Life is for my own to live my own way.

You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

It's my life and my death.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.