Grandma Moses Quotes

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

Either you are creating your life or the circumstances are.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

Everyone has to be in charge of their own destiny.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

Flying or falling, it's up to us.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

You shape your own destiny.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Fate is for losers.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.