Agnes Repplier Quotes

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

You need to distinguish between getting something off your chest that won't help anyone else or saying something because you know you will be hell to live with if you don't. Quite often, this will be beyond your control.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.

It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.

The only person pressuring me is myself.

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.