Heber J. Grant Quotes

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

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.

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

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

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

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

Every man is the son of his own works.

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

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

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

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

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.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

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

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

You can only control your own destiny.