B. F. Skinner Quotes

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

He that would govern others, first should be The master of himself.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

I don't like feeling out of control. I have to feel like I'm in control of my body.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

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

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

I only have control over what I do.

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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.