Quotations on Choices
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
(George Eliot)
"There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
(Denis Waitley)
"Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another."
(Dan Millman)
"Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis)."
(Susan Jeffers)
"While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions."
(Stephen R. Covey)
"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)
"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
(Leo F. Buscaglia)
"Life is a sum of all your choices."
(Albert Camus)
"A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy."
(Gene Roddenberry)
"I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose."
(Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given." William Jennings Bryan)
"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."
(Richard Bach)
"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."
(Mary Lou Retton)
"Every choice you make has an end result."
(Zig Ziglar)
"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."
(Aristotle)
"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."
(Stephen R. Covey)
"Heaven on earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find."
(Wayne Dyer)
"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves."
(Thomas Merton)
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
(Kahlil Gibran)
"How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game? Do you want to play in the big leagues or in the little leagues, in the majors or the minors? Are you going to play big or play small? It’s your choice."
(T. Harv Ecker)
"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)
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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us. "
(A J Toynbee)
"The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself."
(Sabrina Ward Harrison)
"To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. "
(Abbie M Dale)
"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. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
"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. "
(William A Foster)
"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."
(Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
"Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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(Richard Bach)
"If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. 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.
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(Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
"All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it."
(Harry S Truman)
"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)
"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him."
(H Mathews)
"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. "
(Richard Bach)
"Destiny is no 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."
(William Jennings Bryan)
"He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. "
(Salvador De Madriaga)
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. "
(Anonymous)
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
(John Dewey)