Sam Harris Quotes

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

Everybody gets opportunities; what you do with them is up to you.

You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

You control your own wins and losses.

Talent is what you make of your situation.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.

We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Life is about timing.

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

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.