James Cash Penney Quotes

I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.

When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

I only have control over what I do.

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

If I ever stop acting, I'd like to be the author of that decision.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

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.

I feel you're in charge of your own situation.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

I can control my destiny; I control my life.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

The future is in our hands; we are masters of our own destiny.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.