Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

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.

I'm not in charge of my life.

I lost my ability to will things to happen.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

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

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Only you can control your future.

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

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

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

You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

Men are not yet ready to shape their own destinies, to control and direct world events, of which -- instead -- they become the victims.

I can control my destiny; I control my life.

Where I play is not for me to decide.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.