Charles Handy Quotes

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

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

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

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

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.

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

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

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

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.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

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

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