Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

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.

I am not driven.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone.

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

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

You can only control your own destiny.

I get advice, but the final decision about my life is one I always take alone.

Nobody is powerless.