Juliet Marillier Quotes

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

I only have control over what I do.

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

When we choose for ourselves, we also choose for others.

We make our own history. The course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people. It is not so much the powerful leaders that determine our destiny as the much more powerful influence of the combined voices of the people themselves.

We do have the power to kind of make this world what we want it to be. But we have to just choose to do it ourselves and not wait for someone else.

We create our own destiny.

The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

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.

So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction

Man must choose his world

Man is man, and master of his fate.

You either create or allow everything that happens to you.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.