Taking Charge of One's Life Quotes

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.

Me, personally, Michael Rooker - I'm not a good victim.

If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny.

Life's too short to be a pushover.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.