Horace Quotes

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

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

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

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

It is impossible to erase my choices.

I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.

When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

In every moment you have the choice to be a victim or a creator.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

Life is a menu. Whatever you order is what's delivered to the table.

Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.

Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

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

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.