Taking Charge of Your Life Quotes

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, 'Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.'

Live your life like you're the hero in your movie and right now.

Don't overplan your life. Joining Google when I was four months pregnant was a bit of a leap, but sometimes you have to do the right thing for you right now.

People get surprised when they see you out buying a DVD at Best Buy like somebody else should be doing it for you or something! They're like, 'What are you doing your grocery shopping for?' Well, 'cause I'm starving!

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

Anybody that got in your way or stopped you or barred your success, you either push through them or work around them. I don't have enough time for excuses or crying about people saying how someone wasn't given a proper opportunity. Nobody gave me an opportunity.

The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.

Your future is only big enough for you to walk through, not for you and your past to walk through.