I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

I am the me I choose to be.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be,

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

WE ALL create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the time we are adult, we are the sum total of the choices we have made. This is not pleasant hearing for the person who wishes to place the responsibility for what he has become on someone else or on that blanket alibi, circumstances beyond his control. To such a person the circumstances always seem to be beyond his control. But I believe most firmly that in the long run every single one of us must be responsible for himself and for his actions.

It's not what's happening to you now or what's happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

An individual chooses and makes himself.

I am whoever I am when I am it.

I found that I could choose who I was, and most importantly, that who I was didn’t have to be changed by what other people thought of me.

It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future.

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.