Denis Waitley Quotes

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

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

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

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

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

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

My life and career is my own adventure.

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

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

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

Why make life so dull when you can make it exciting and meet amazing people and go to countries and see things? You make life the way you want it to be. A lot of people don't realize that at the end of the day, the ultimate control of what you do and your destiny, it lies in the way you want to direct yourself.

You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

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

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

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

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

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

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

You shape your own destiny.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

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