Guy Finley Quotes

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

We only have problems we really want to have.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

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.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.

Life can be either of two things: What it makes of you or what you make of it.

Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences.

I'm in a situation where I can determine my own future.

I am glad I am born in this era, but, at the same time, my success will totally depend on the choices I make.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control--yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.

I've come to realize that life is what you make it.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.