Self-Decision Quotes

No man can use his brain to think for another.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.

Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

Some people get fake boobs, but whatever. You can make your own decisions.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.

At the end of the day, you have to do what's best for you, and I support any guy who stays home.

I don't listen to anyone else. That's why I don't have a publicist or something like that. I can't stand it if someone's trying to tell me to do something which might be a mistake sometimes.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

As a human being, as a person, you can't make a decision based on what other people are going to think.

I think of feedback as constructive, not positive or negative. You choose to do what you want with it.

There are some decisions in life that only you can make.

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.

If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

Seek other people's advice, but don't take orders. And don't take 100% of anyone's advice. Make sure every decision you make is a product of your own conclusion. Be a student, not a disciple.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

Girl Scouts helps girls make decisions that are right for them and offer support.

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.