David Ortiz Quotes

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

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

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

I am going to walk away when I'm ready to walk away. Not because of a win or a loss.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

I am not driven.

I don't live on other people's terms.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.