Jean Piaget Quotes

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

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

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

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

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.

People are decisions and actions.

People make their own destinies.

I don't believe in luck. I don't believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.

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

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.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

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

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.