Larry Hovis Quotes

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

My philosophy is to be me.

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

One creates oneself.

I know who I am, and I know what my future holds.

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

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I know who I am and what I can do.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

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.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.