Waylon Jennings Quotes

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

It's up to the individual to make the best of what life has dealt.

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

It's your life, live it your way.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

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

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

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.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

Only you can control your future.

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands—a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Minute by minute, you decide who you are and who you're likely to be. You make the choices hour by hour, just in the present. I don't believe there's some roadmap laid out that we're headed towards.

What you do, who you're with, and how you feel about the world around you is completely up to you.

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.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.