
“It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”
Variant: It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
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“It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.”
Variant: It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Source: Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994, with Edward Esko), p. 63
“Your decisions will determine direction. Your direction will determine destination. Let”
The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands
Part I : Ambiguity and Freedom
The Ethics of Ambiguity (1947)
Variant: Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting
Context: In spite of so many stubborn lies, at every moment, at every opportunity, the truth comes to light, the truth of life and death, of my solitude and my bond with the world, of my freedom and my servitude, of the insignificance and the sovereign importance of each man and all men. There was Stalingrad and there was Buchenwald, and neither of the two wipes out the other. Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look the truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting [C'est dans la connaissance des conditions authentiques de notre vie qu'il nous faut puiser la force de vivre et des raisons d'agir].
‘Introduction’, New Fabian Essays (1952), pp. 26–27
Gloria Allred. (September 13, 1990). Testimony before United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Chap. V, The Period of Dictatorship
"Hitlerism and Social Democracy" (1934) https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1934/hitler/index.htm