Malik Jackson Quotes

You focus on the things that you can control, and that's what I'm doing.

I believe you have to make things happen.

All I can control is what I do when I step on the floor.

We can only control what we can control.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

I could make a difference.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

God helps those who help themselves.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

I do tend to be a leader in situations in my own life.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

It’s in our interest to shape the world around us.

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

Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

Take destiny in your own hands.

All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.

I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.