Fulton J. Sheen Quotes

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

We have power over nothing except our will.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

I don't live on other people's terms.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.