Plautus Quotes

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

Only you can control your future.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

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

I am a leader, I am not a follower. I create my own path, and that way, I cannot blame anyone else if I do not succeed.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

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

My future is one I must make myself.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea

We have to pilot our own dreams - we cannot entrust them to anyone else.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.