Quotes about choice

"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

A Course In Miracles on choice
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"Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation."

Allen, James on choice
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"Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?"

Allenbaugh, Eric on choice
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"The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship."

Armesto, Raul on choice
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"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."

Atwood, Margaret on choice   

"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."

Bach, Richard on choice
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"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

Bacon, Francis on choice
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"Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest."

Bailes, Frederick on choice
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"It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to."

Barnes, Sondra Anice on choice
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"Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others."

Berne, Eric on choice
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"Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will."

Bhagavad Gita on choice
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"Refuse the evil, and choose the good. [Isaiah 7:15]"

Bible on choice   

"I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]"

Bible on choice   

"Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose."

Blyth, R. H. on choice   

"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."

Boswell, James on choice   

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

Brown, Les on choice
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"You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose"

Browne, Harry on choice
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"Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on choice   

"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."

Buscaglia, Leo on choice
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"Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something."

Carpenter, Liz on choice   

"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth."

Carson, Rachel on choice
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"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."

Chopra, Deepak on choice   

"You are either part of the solution or part of the problem."

Cleaver, Eldridge on choice
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"Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation."

Clinton, Bill on choice   

"On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us --ah! what a dream, to live in that! --the other stifles us at the first breath."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on choice   

"The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different."

Dewey, John on choice
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"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."

Diana, Princess of Wales on choice   

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

Dyer, Wayne on choice
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"You can't choose up sides on a round world."

Dyer, Wayne on choice
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"Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine."

Dyer, Wayne on choice
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"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

Edwards, Tryon on choice
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"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on choice
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"We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on choice   

"You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back."

English, Jon on choice
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"It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice."

Epictetus on choice
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"Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck."

Erickson, Marian on choice   

"It is not something I must do but something I want to do"

Fixx, James on choice   

"You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do."

Fonda, Jane on choice
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"He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on choice
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"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

Frankl, Viktor E. on choice
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