Kweisi Mfume Quotes

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

I don't believe in being a victim. I think with information and motivation, you can do anything.

Nobody is powerless.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.

It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.

We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

Many of us have had the attitude that life is something that happens to us and that all we can do is make the best of it. It is basically a victim's position, giving power to people and things outside of ourselves. We are beginning to realize that the power rests in us, that we can choose to create our life the way we want it to be.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Regardless of anything, I'm gonna write my own story and my own ending.

Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.