Ken Blanchard Quotes

A character is a completely fashioned will.

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.

We know to much to command ourselves very far.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

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

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

I am not driven.

I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.

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

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

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

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

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

The passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Restricting behavior in a crises is hard to do.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

There's this idea that, 'All I have at the end of the day is my mind.' That's the only thing you can control. I believe that.

You're the only one that's in control of your emotions; you're the only one that's inside of you at all times. So control you however you want to. If you're not happy, that's your fault.