John Dewey Quotes

Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

It was scary. But it was so liberating. I thought, This is not predetermined - I get to choose. There are some days where I have to choose five times in a day. I had to make a choice when you called and the phone rang, whether I'm going to show up and be me, or whether I'm going to say what I think I'm supposed to say and get off the phone.

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

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

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.

I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant to be.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

We always have a choice.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.