Rudolf Steiner Quotes

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

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

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

My work in government has flowed from the fundamental idea of personal empowerment. It's about giving people the tools they need to pave their own way.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

One creates oneself.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

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

The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.

Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences.

In my limited experience, you have to make your own decisions in life and experience things for yourself.

Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.