Frank Sinatra Quotes

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.

I'm just going to live my life the way I want to.

A person takes his own path. My father tried to guide me the best way he thought I should go, and it didn't work. I went the way I wanted to.

My life is my life, and I'll live it.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's really no right or wrong way to do things. Everybody has a way they think you should do it. So why not do it your way, you know what I mean, respectfully.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

I do what I do. I live my life the way I've been living it.

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

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I was always my own person.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.