Dan Fogelberg Quotes

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I gotta do what make me happy.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

All I've ever needed is myself.

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

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

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.

I have always done what I wanted to do.