Dan Millman Quotes

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

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

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

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 don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

It's up to the individual to decide when he wants to quit.

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

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

The only power you have is the word no.

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

I never do anything that I don't want to do.

If I ever stop acting, I'd like to be the author of that decision.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

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

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.

What, in the end, is freedom but the ability to choose?

Being independent in my choices is important to me.