Cesar Chavez Quotes

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

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.

There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.'

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

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

You need to be very critical of yourself because MMA is a singular sport. You have to make the changes yourself or nothing will change. You have to be the one making the changes.

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.

If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.