Richard G. Scott Quotes

No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

I only can control what I can control.

Expectations are one thing, but you've got to do your own. Got to do your own.

We can only control what we can control.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

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.

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.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

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.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.