Felix Adler Quotes

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I tell all kids and the girls growing up that you control your own life, you control your destiny - not where you're born, not who your parents are.

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

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.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

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

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

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 like to be in control of my own destiny.

Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

You shape your own destiny.

Only you can control your future.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.