Khalil Gibran Quotes

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

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

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

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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

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

I don't have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

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

Independence is doing what you want to do, knowing that you're happy with the decisions you're making and that it's the best for you.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

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.

Freedom is control in your own life.

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

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I want to go out on my terms.

I'm going to do things when they are right for me.