Alanis Morissette Quotes

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.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

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

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

I'm fully aware, fully on, and fully kind of designing everything that goes on with me. Anything that's happening is definitely on my table.

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