Barack Obama Quotes

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

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

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

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.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

Everybody has the right to decide their own fate.

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

Choice, like behavior and performance, is often circumvented by the vocabulary of the anointed.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.