Choice Quotes

Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse,
each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.
There are no 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.

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.

If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted;
and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income
of the college will be devoted to his education....Harvard
President Edward Everett, 1848, when a black applied for
admittance to the college....Isn't that soooo beautiful? In 1848,
years before the Civil War, Edward Everett, President of Harvard
was willing to devote everything to one black student if others
chose to withdraw....he must have been a wonderful person :-)

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.

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.

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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before
we experience them....Kahlil Gibran.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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....Frederick Bailes.

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....Eric Berne.

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....R. H. Blyth.

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

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....Harry Browne.

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

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

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by
making choices about the results you want to create. When
you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and
resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people
fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their
choices are ineffective. 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.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two
evils is still choosing evil....Jerry Garcia.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do
it or toss it aside; you are the person who makes up
your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind.
Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just
be contented to stay where you are...Edgar A. Guest.

You are everything that is, your thoughts,
your life, your dreams come true. You are
everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited
as the endless universe....Shad Helmstetter.

It is always your next move....Napolean Hill.

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone
might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told
you  -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that
somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you
ever do it. That drug that someone might want
you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it.
It can destroy you....Gordon B. Hinckley.

Once in a while it really hits people that
they don't have to experience the world in
the way they have been told to....Alan Keightley.

Any person who recognizes this greatest power...
the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is
the one that is doing the choosing and that friends,
although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him,
nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real
self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own
action, and upon his own initiative....J. Martin Kohe.

When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred
and that each act is an act of choice and therefore
sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously
each moment. When we live at this level, we participate
in the creation of a better world....Scout Cloud Lee.

A man is too apt to forget that in this
world he cannot have everything.
A choice is all that is left him....Harry Mathews.

There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive,
or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still
no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not
fond of you, it's OK...You don't have to wait and see if they'll
love you back. You can announce it...Joy in life comes from expressing
ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to
like you. But you can like who you like....Andrew Matthews.

Before my accidents, there were ten thousand
things I could do. I could spend the rest of
my life dwelling on the things that I had lost,
but instead I chose to focus on the nine
thousand I still had left....Warren Mitchell.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's
notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to
be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it
was my up, my down. I could choose to see this
situation as a setback or as a starting point.
I chose to begin life again....Warren Mitchell.

Choose your love,
Love your choice....Thomas S. Monson.

The difficulty in life is the choice.....George Moore.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the
strange medley of life. But we can decide
what happens in us -- how we can take it,
what we do with it -- and that is what really
counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of
life and make it a thing of worth and beauty --
that is the test of living....Joseph Fort Newton.

To every man there openeth a way, and ways,
and a way. And the high soul climbs the high
way, and the low soul gropes the low. And in
between, on the misty flats, the rest drift
to and fro. But to every man there openeth a
high way and a low, and every man decideth
the way his soul shall go....John Oxenham.

If you choose not to decide,
you still have made a choice....Neil Peart.

Choice strengthens all....Neal Prescot.

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....Mary Lou Retton.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your
opportunity to make the most important decision
you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you
now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't
think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who
have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously.
Make it carefully. Make it powerfully....Anthony Robbins.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of
total well-being, we also have the power to choose
positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we
change our every experience of life!....Greg Anderson.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not
accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should
be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen
response to the situation and what you should be doing.
If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop
yourself. That thought is the problem....Stephen Covey.

Every situation presents us with an opportunity
to automatically react or consciously respond: a
choice point...We are a product of our choices,
not of our circumstances....Eric Allenbaugh.

It is your choices that make you
uniquely you....Walter Anderson.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness,
immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can
choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most
precious gift I have -- life itself....Walter Anderson.

I so love the Spanish proverb "God says,
'Choose what you will and pay for it,'"
which stresses that life holds no easy answers,
that conscious choices are often costly ones.
We must live with and pay for their consequences.
Understanding this, we learn what it means to be
fully human. Furthermore, we can exploit every
delay as a cycle of growth....Marsha Sinetar.

Friendship and love. Courage. Fear.
Honesty and truth. Forgiveness. You
make a million choices in life. Each one
causes a ripple....Children of the Struggle.

EVERYTHING is dependent on whether or not we care...
CHOOSE to care, CHOOSE to want, CHOOSE to do the
right thing....my forever friend, Philip Larson.

Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change
someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to
choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make
their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions
where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders....Vince Poscente.

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....Stephen Covey.

It's easy to say "no!" when there's a deeper
"yes!" burning inside....Stephen Covey.

In the choice between changing one's mind and
proving there's no need to do so, most people
get busy on the proof....John Kenneth Galbraith.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two
people love each other only when they are
quite capable of living without each other
but choose to live with each other....M. Scott Peck.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember
the men who walked through the huts comforting
others, giving away their last piece of bread.
They may have been few in number, but they offer
sufficient proof that everything can be taken away
from man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms
-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own way....Viktor Frankl.

Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing.
His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He
compares you to no one else -- You are one of a kind. You
lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed
you to be here in this time in history to fulfill
His special purpose for this generation....Roy Lessin.

That something happened to you is of no importance
to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about
you is what you choose to make happen -- your values
and choices. That which happened by accident -- what
family you were born into, in what country, and where
you went to school -- is totally unimportant....Ayn Rand.

Only choose in marriage a woman who you would choose
as a friend if she were a man....Joseph Joubert.

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