Daily Inspiration Quote by Randall Terry

The line draws a bright, almost prosecutorial border between what you feel and what you do, and that clarity is the point. Randall Terry isn’t offering a tender self-help mantra; he’s staking out a moral framework designed to allocate responsibility cleanly. By conceding that feelings can be involuntary, the quote borrows the language of compassion. Then it pivots: behavior is choice, therefore behavior is culpable. The emotional concession functions like a rhetorical decoy - a small mercy that makes the coming demand for discipline sound fair-minded rather than punitive.

The repetition is intentional. “Behaviors are a choice” and “Behavior has to do with choices” is not elegant, but it’s sticky. It reads like something meant to survive a heated argument, a rally, or a TV hit: short clauses, low nuance, high portability. You can deploy it as a mic-drop in any debate where someone invokes trauma, anger, fear, or desire as explanation. It doesn’t deny those forces; it simply refuses to let them stand as justification.

The subtext is cultural as much as personal: this is a rebuke to an era that increasingly treats interior life as the most authoritative evidence we have. Terry’s framing elevates outward conduct over inward experience, pushing back against therapeutic talk that centers “valid feelings.” It’s also a way of policing boundaries: if you can’t control what you feel, you can still be judged - and expected to comply - based on what you choose to do next.