Bob Goff Quotes

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Now the power is in your hands!

It’s in our interest to shape the world around us.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

Does our hand show in this?

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

We women feel we are here to serve. That's the mistake we make. We may have children, husbands, lovers, bills, responsibility. Those things don't own us, but too often we let them.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

I answer the questions I want, and I don't the ones I don't.

We're too complacent. We let things happen to us. And you don't have to let things happen to you. You can affect change.

We create our own destiny.