Alice Walker Quotes

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

I will always back myself to achieve what I can achieve. It is all down to me.

I feel like I'm the chosen one, but I chose myself.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you imagined it.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

Our life is our own creation.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

The entire world may not change. The entire world cannot change. The entire world even will not change. But your tiny world you can and will change forever at this very moment with the help of your confidence-heart. Yours will be the unparalleled victory.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.