Jack LaLanne Quotes

Only you can control your future.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

I don't believe in luck. I don't believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.