Ability To Choose Quotes

• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Choices, Ability, Humans

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2011

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• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Freedom, Commitment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession”, p.21, Harper Collins

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  The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

  William James

  Happiness, Fear, Stress

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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• Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

  Stephen Covey

  Responsibility, People, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• I choose not to place "DIS," in my ability.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Autism, Disability, Ability

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• The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

  William James

  Stress, Weapons, Combat

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• Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.

  Tony Robbins

  Winning, Games, Inner Strength

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• No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Attitude, Lasts, Circumstances

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• Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Circumstances, Ability

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Attitude, Kindness, Hate

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 11, 2010

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• The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

  William P. Young

  Evil, Essentials, Ability

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• Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Evil, Able, Possibility

  Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Want, Ability

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Good Friend, Important, Talent

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• My motto in life is 'aim true'. It came from my love of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. She inspired me to sport a gold arrow around my neck because it reminded me of her strength and that I can always hit my mark when I set intention, follow what makes my heart beat, and aim true. The arrow was a reminder that I can cut through any obstacles, that I have power, beauty, and the ability to choose love over fear every moment of my life.

  Kathryn Budig

  Sports, Heart, Cutting

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• Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

  Epictetus

  Responsibility, Choices, Body

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with [...] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature has given it.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Horse, Small Numbers, Trying

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• We have the ability to choose, we are God's higher form of creation, we surpass all other forms of life and we don't use the mental faculties we've been given. We don't even understand what we are capable of doing. School doesn't teach us anything about ourselves. So the more we learn about ourselves, the more we take control over our life.

  Bob Proctor

  School, Use, Creation

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• The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

  Robert Cialdini

  Hands, Wish, Ability

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• Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

  David Mamet

  School, Multiple Choice, Interesting

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• Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Understanding, Cruelty, Ability

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.47, Penguin UK

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