Charles II Quotes

My words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.'

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

I am responsible for my own actions and for nobody else's actions.

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.

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

Freedom requires responsibility to choose who we are above and beyond our immediate impulses, needs, and social pressures, so that we can genuinely express the type of person we want to be, live the life we truly want to live, leave the legacy we desire.

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.