Roger Garaudy Quotes

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

We do have the power to kind of make this world what we want it to be. But we have to just choose to do it ourselves and not wait for someone else.

The future kind of gets less intimidating when you're the one shaping it.

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration.

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

We are the masters of our own universe.