Diamond Dallas Page Quotes

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.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

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

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

I enjoy making the decisions.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

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

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!