Steve Jobs Quotes

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I've lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

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

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

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

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

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.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I'm just living my life.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

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

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I just live my life.