Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.

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.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

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

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

Regardless of anything, I'm gonna write my own story and my own ending.

I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.