Linford Christie Quotes

I am glad I am born in this era, but, at the same time, my success will totally depend on the choices I make.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

People change when they tell themselves they have to change. People do not change when you tell them they have to change.

Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

You can't change people.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences.

I'm in a situation where I can determine my own future.

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

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you've ever made. If you don't like where you are, start making different choices!

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

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

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.