Samuel Smiles Quotes

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

You're the only person that can make your life happen.

You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

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.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Every man is the son of his own works.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

We are the creators of our own destiny.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

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

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

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

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'