David A. Bednar Quotes

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

It's easy to fall into victim mode and feel like the world is against you. The truth is, people aren't against you: they're just for themselves. The only thing within your control is how you react and respond to the chaotic dance of life.

When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

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

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

You control what you can control.

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

I don't believe in luck. I don't believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.