Christian Bale Quotes

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

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

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.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I've had a wonderful life. The reason it's been a wonderful life is I've made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

I'm trying to show people that you can have any kind of life you want.

So much of our life is dictated by our mindsets. So much of it! Of how we think, we shall become.

You can make your life whatever you want it to be

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.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

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

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

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.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.