Corliss Lamont Quotes

If we don't have a future, then we haven't got a present.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.