Choices Quotes - Page 2

• There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Bad Ass

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

  Colin Powell

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

  William Wilberforce

  Inspirational, Peace, Abolition Of Slavery

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• Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.

  Darren Main

  Life, Moments, Made

  Darren Main (2002). “Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic”, p.173, BookBaby

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• You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 22, 2017

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• The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. 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

  Inspirational, Integrity, Recovery

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• When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Fear, Failure

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Habit

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• We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

  Neil Gaiman

  Our Actions, Accepting, Our Lives

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• People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Night, People

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• Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

  Anne Frank

  Firsts, Our Choices, Our Lives

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• Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Christian

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

  W. Clement Stone

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

  Tony Benn

  Debt, Freedom To Choose, Depends

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, 2007.

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• A human being is a deciding being.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Thrive, Humans

  "Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor E. Frankl, www.cnn.com. 1946.

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• There's small choice in rotten apples.

  William Shakespeare

  Apples, Liberty, Taming

  1593 Hortensio to Gremio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act1, sc.1, l.133-4.

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• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sympathy

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• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

  John Dewey

  Spiritual, Choices Made, Discovery

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.351, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. 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

  Running, Philosophy, Believe

  "You Learn by Living" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (Foreword), 1960.

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• What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Love, Inspirational, Heart

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  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Peace is a conscious choice.

  John Denver

  Peace, Conscious, Environmentalism

  Thomas F. Crum, John Denver (1988). “The magic of conflict: turning a life of work into a work of art”, Touchstone Books

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• Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

  Charles de Lint

  Accountability

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.471, Macmillan

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