Michael Gerber Quotes

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

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

You shape your own destiny.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I'm fully aware, fully on, and fully kind of designing everything that goes on with me. Anything that's happening is definitely on my table.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

Life doesn't just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

You either create or allow everything that happens to you.