William Glasser Quotes

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

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

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

Only you can control your future.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

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.

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

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.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

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

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

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

People are decisions and actions.

I get advice, but the final decision about my life is one I always take alone.

Where I play is not for me to decide.

The only person who takes the full responsibility why I leave Man United is myself. I am the one to make the choice.

You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).