Sidney Sheldon Quotes

It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren't any paths to be found.

Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

That's it. I'm going to start making the right choices.

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

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

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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

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

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.

How did the Oscar change my life? What it did was that it gave me a new reality. And it let me know that an award wasn't going to change my life - that I had to be in control of changing my life.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

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.

The most important thing is to have opportunities and feel confidence in yourself.

It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.