Dan Millman Quotes

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

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

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

Use wisely your power of choice.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

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

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.

I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances.

We always have a choice.

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.

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