Guy Finley Quotes

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

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

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

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.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe ? Another act of willing?

We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

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.

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.