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Self Determination Quotes

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

― Abraham Lincoln

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

― Winston Churchill

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

― Rumi

"I create my own path. It was straight and narrow. I looked at it this way—you were either in my way or out of it."

― Kobe Bryant

"When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me, is me."

― Muhammad Ali

"You can beat or jail me or even kill me, but I am not going to be what you want me to be!"

― Denzel Washington

"You either play the game or let the game play you."

― Dwayne Johnson

"Success will always be driven by focus & effort — and we always control both."

― Dwayne Johnson

"Sometimes you find success and sometimes you don’t, but my satisfaction is knowing I’ll always control my effort with my own two hands."

― Dwayne Johnson

"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."

"What’s the world’s greatest lie?… It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate."

― Paulo Coelho

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life."

― Paulo Coelho

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

― William Shakespeare

"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."

― Oprah Winfrey

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

― John F. Kennedy

"Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time."

― Matthew McConaughey

"In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story."

"YOU decide what your limits are, and YOU decide your level of success. You are responsible for the time that you spend on this planet."

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