Markus Zusak Quotes

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

You can't wait for people to tell you; you have to know yourself.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.

You live and you learn, man. I've learned you can't wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.

We can act instead of being acted upon.

I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

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

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.