Dave Thomas Quotes

You can become whoever you want to be. You can do what you want to do.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

You can do anything you want to do.

I realized that I had the ability to carve out a life for myself, that it was in no way limited by what had already occurred in my past. And that inspired me to go to school.

Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't'

I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.

I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.