Choice(s)
- Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.--Paula Poundstone
- All through life we must keep choosing. Destiny hangs on "yes" and "no." As we look back, it is to wonder what would have happened if we had gone the other way when the road forked.--Anonymous ( Philadelphia Ledger, 1926)
- Any choice we make that robs someone of their human dignity isn’t the right choice. Any choice that makes another person feel less than human, that leads to the diminishment of another person, is the wrong choice.--Philip Gulley ("Sentences I’ve Read5")
- At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.--Thich Nhat Hanh
- Authentic choices require that we push past our comfort zone.--Sarah Ban Breathnach (Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self)
- The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)
- But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise."--Stephen R. Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change)
- Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both choices man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.--W. H. Allen
- Choose to let go.
Choose dignity.
Choose to forgive yourself.
Choose to forgive others.
Choose to see your value.
Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.
Choose to make us proud.--Shannon L. Alder
- The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny -- it is the light that guides your way.--Heraclitus
- Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.--W.J. Bryant
- Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.--Groucho Marx
- Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
- Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine March 18, 2003)
- Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.--Anna Lappe
- Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.--John Kenneth Galbraith
- For the most part, most people most often choose comfort--the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)
- Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece--by thought, choice, courage and determination.-H. Jackson Brown
- I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.--Judith M. Knowlton
- I have come to understand that it is not protesting what we do not like that counts. It is choosing what we do which, ultimately, changes things.--Joan Chittister (40 Soul-Stretching Conversations)
- If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.--Robert Fritz
- In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.--Eleanor Roosevelt
- It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.--J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
- It is the ability to choose which makes us human.--Madeleine L'Engle (Walking on Water)
- It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.--Agnes Repplier
- Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us. Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing--sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.--Henri Nouwen
- Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.--Christine Feehan (Night Game)
- The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life and you must accept regret.--Henri Frederic Amiel
- Master your choices, or become the slave of their consequences.--Michael Rawls
- The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.--Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ("Moral Ambiguity" Off Center)
- No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.--Cory Booker
- One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.--Eleanor Roosevelt
- Our greatest power is the power of choice; our greatest freedom lies in the exercise of our power of choice.--William Curtis
- Put yourself in a position where you're making choices about your life, rather than letting other people make those choices for you. That's what balance is all about.--Liz Dolan
- Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.--Willa A. Foster (Bits & Pieces)
- The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself...--Harry Browne
- The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.--Charles Swindoll
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.--Hannah Arendt
- The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach -- waiting for a gift from the sea.--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Strive for harmony and stability in your own choices, and you will surround your relationships with contentment.--Michael Rawls
- Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie--for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance--will instantly vitiate the effect.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.--Anonymous
- There are three ways you can get to the top of a tree: 1) sit on an acorn 2) make friends with a bird 3) climb it.--Anonymous
- To choose is also to begin.--Starhawk (Dreaming the Dark)
- To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.--Arbie M. Dale
- We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.--Jim Collins
- We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.--Carolyn Forche
- We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.--Brene Brown (Rising Strong: the Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution)
- We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have the choice.--Pema Chodron
- We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.--Ernest Holmes
- We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.--Kahlil Gibran
- We ... get to choose the attitude we live with. We get to choose the way we treat the people around us. We get to choose how we spend our time. All those things add up to who we become.--Marc Alan Schelske
- We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.--Mildred D. Taylor
- We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.--Madeleine Albright
- When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.--Unknown
- When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by them.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
- You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go. . . . and you can change the road you're on at any time.--Jinger Heath
- You can 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.--W. Clement Stone
- 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.--Robert F. Bennett
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