Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I want everybody to find meaning in whatever they do. That's the only purpose to life, actually. Let that meaning be so strong that you can't not wake up every day and be like, "Yep, this is what I gotta do, let's keep it moving" and not be disgruntled about it, and start using other people as excuses for why you're not creating a better life for yourself.

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

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

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

I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

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

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

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

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.

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

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

I inspire myself.

I had a persistent mindset that I was going to make something happen for myself.