Christopher Paolini Quotes

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

The important thing to remember is you control you. Nothing else can control you.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I am not driven.

I don't live on other people's terms.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.

I am going to walk away when I'm ready to walk away. Not because of a win or a loss.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

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.

I don't worry about other people, and I don't let them influence me too much. I try to find out what I want to do and not what other people want me to do.

I wasn't going to let anything control me.

Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.