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Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.