Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

We are 100% responsible for all our experiences. Every thought we think is creating our future.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.

Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.