Mary Pipher Quotes

I possess the greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind, the power of choice. Today, I choose to persist without exception. No longer will I live in a dimension of distraction, my focus blown hither and yon like a leaf on a blustery day. I know the outcome I desire. I hold fast to my dreams. I stay the course. I do not quit.

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

I wanted to be a star - with a purpose.

If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

I never allowed other people's expectations to determine whatever course I took. I had to reach a decision about what I was going to do based on what I felt inside myself.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

I always knew what I wanted, and I always had a very clear vision for myself and my career as an artist.

I have to follow my own vision.

I believe in empowering people rather than advising them and forcing them in a direction which I feel is right.

I want people to know me for following my dreams.

I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.

Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.

Be wary of those who seek to steal your dream. Be even more wary of those who seek to tell you what your dream should be.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

I don't believe that everyone else really cares what I do all the time. I think in general you have to follow your own path and your own heart and not worry about what everybody else wants you to do. They should be worried about what they're going to do.

Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

Dreams are not theirs to take!