Richard Carlson Quotes

The only power you have is the word no.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

If I don't like anything I say no to it.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

Who gets to decide what you want?

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.

Now I do have a choice, and I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.

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

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

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.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

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

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

I never do anything that I don't want to do.

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

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

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.

What, in the end, is freedom but the ability to choose?

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

I've always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.