Thomas Sowell Quotes

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

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

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 are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

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

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.

We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

You shape your own destiny.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.