Alfred A. Montapert Quotes

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

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

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

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

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

God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.

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

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

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

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

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

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Nothing comes sailing by itself.