Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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

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

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

I like to control my own personal life.

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

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.

I have to take total control myself. I can't let anybody else do anything, for I find that I can do things better for me. I don't want to get other people playing with what they think that I'm trying to do.

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

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.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.