John Glenn 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.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

I just want to keep doing what I feel.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

The enormous potentiality for nature’s bounty and men’s capacity to differentiate their experience can become valued by the individual himself so that he will not be tempted and coerced into adjustment

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about just making money.

I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

I like my life. I'm not living through anybody else's eyes, anybody else's life; I'm enjoying mine.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

Seeing what you want from life from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, is the most important thing.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

As long as I'm building and doing what I want to do, that's the only thing that matters.

I want to follow my path.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

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