Pete Wentz Quotes

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

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.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

I tell all kids and the girls growing up that you control your own life, you control your destiny - not where you're born, not who your parents are.

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

The way you live your life depends on you.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

I never asked to be born in the first place.

Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.

Remember, it's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.

That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

Our life is our own creation.