Edward de Bono Quotes

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.

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.

Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.

Your mental attitude is your motivation and your inspiration.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

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

We can act instead of being acted upon.

Some people feel like stuff just happens to you and you cope as best you can. Some people feel like we can change what happens not only to ourselves but to other people. That's me, and I like that in anybody.

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.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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.

You shape your own destiny.

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.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.