Guy Finley Quotes

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

Things don't weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don't dwell on things; I don't let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.

You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

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.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

If I had to sum it up, the goal of Scientology is giving the person back to themselves. Like, your own power of choice.

What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.

I can control my destiny; I control my life.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.