You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.