David Cook Quotes

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

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.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

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

I can be pretty much anything I want.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

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

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

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

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

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

Sometimes people ask me, 'Are you an optimist or a pessimist?' It doesn't matter. Whether I have a future or not is for me to decide.

One of the things I stress to those I meet, especially young people, is that we are the heroes of our own lives, and we can be the masters of our own stories.

We're the only ones who can change our reality.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

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

There are things one must do for oneself.

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.