Immanuel Kant Quotes

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

Every man is the son of his own works.

You cannot make somebody else responsible for your own happiness.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The will of man is his happiness.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.

You can give them the opportunity to thrive, but when it comes to finding happiness or success, kids are really on their own.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

I now know that me giving my all and giving my best will result in my needs being taken care of and provided for.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

There are things one must do for oneself.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.