Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

I do believe in self-help.

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

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

No one's going to make you work on yourself except you.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Improvement begins with I.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

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

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Nobody challenges me. I challenge myself.

One creates oneself.

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.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.