Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

You are the sum total of your choices.

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

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

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

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.