“I am not in the habit of letting someone else decide what I can and cannot do.”
Source: The Unicorn Girl (1969), Chapter 4 (pp. 37-38)
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
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Australian actor 1869–1955Related quotes
“The people do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide.”
George Will
(1941) American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
Column, January 15, 2009, "Of Judges, By Judges, For Judges" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will.html at jewishworldreview.com.
2000s
Jeremy Corbyn
(1949) British Labour Party politician
Brexit: Boris Johnson faces showdown in Parliament https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49560557 BBC News (3 September 2019)
2010s, 2019
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
Edmund Hillary
(1919–2008) New Zealand mountaineer
Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet, this appears to have originated as a quote about him in a Rolex advertisement.
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“Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.”
Rollo May
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Love and Will
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 15
“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
Free Will
Variant: You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.
“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin
(1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Variant: Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.