Louise Hay Quotes

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

You control what you can control.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

We can only control what we can control.

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can't blame other people for things that happened to you.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.