Tony Dorsett Quotes

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Everybody will have their things to say about what I can or can't do. At the end of the day, I'm the one who has to put on the jersey and play.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

You are the Master of your own Destiny

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

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

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

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

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

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.