Rudolf Steiner Quotes

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

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

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

As you get older, it's important to have goals. When you're a kid you have them, but other people can set them for you, such as your parents, your school... so, as you get older it's nice to have your own goals, which don't have to do with being more famous, or being in bigger movies, or making more money. Those things kind of corrupt your soul.

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go... You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

I do believe in self-help.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.