Corliss Lamont Quotes

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.

I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate.

I never try to think I have the answer to what people should do or not do.

Man must choose his world

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

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

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

I don't like to make my life like a book.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

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

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.