Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

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

People have power to make a difference in their lives.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

Nobody is powerless.

I believe whatever has to happen will happen - you just need to stand up for yourself.

That power of the individual person - just the girl - is infinite.

Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.

Many of us have had the attitude that life is something that happens to us and that all we can do is make the best of it. It is basically a victim's position, giving power to people and things outside of ourselves. We are beginning to realize that the power rests in us, that we can choose to create our life the way we want it to be.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

You shape your own destiny.