Guy Finley Quotes

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

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

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

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.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

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

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

You control your own wins and losses.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

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.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

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