Jake Abel Quotes

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

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?

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

Look, you deal with the choices you are confronted with.

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

Who gets to decide what you want?

We can act instead of being acted upon.