Rick Perry Quotes

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

People are decisions and actions.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

It's choice that makes us human.

Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

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

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.