Steve Young Quotes

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part of life is realizing that you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know. However, it is up to you to reach inside, face the fears, and unleash that which really drives you.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

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

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

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.

Why make life so dull when you can make it exciting and meet amazing people and go to countries and see things? You make life the way you want it to be. A lot of people don't realize that at the end of the day, the ultimate control of what you do and your destiny, it lies in the way you want to direct yourself.

We all have that superhero inside us, but it's about tapping into it and embracing it and owning it.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.