James Hetfield Quotes

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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 know who I am, and I know what my future holds.

Life can be either of two things: What it makes of you or what you make of it.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

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

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

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

If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

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

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

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.