Choices Quotes - Page 20

• What makes a media company successful is how it copes with competitive markets in which people have a choice. Competition today is at a more intense level than it has ever before been because the barriers to providing information in the virtual world are so low and the choice of provider nearly infinite.

  James Murdoch

  Business, Successful, Media

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• Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

  Joyce Meyer

  Confidence, Mean, Joy

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “Eat the Cookie...Buy the Shoes: Giving Yourself Permission to Lighten Up”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.

  David Copperfield

  Encouraging, Dream, Motivation

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• Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Heart, Giving

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• Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Freedom, Exercise, Men

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• The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

  H. G. Wells

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• The dignity of man is in free choice.

  Max Frisch

  Freedom, Men, Democracy

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• There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.

  William M. Bulger

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Clever

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• We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

  Ernest Holmes

  Graduation, Moments, Individual

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.100, Penguin

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• I dropped out of college my junior year to do saturday night live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Women, Night, College

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• An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Yield, Views, History

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1964). “Vistas of history”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

  Yevgeny Baratynsky

  Hope, Fate, Two

  "Two Fates" by Yevgeny Baratynsky, translated by Dmitri Obolensky, 1823.

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• Let never man be bold enough to say,
  Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray:
  The first crime, past, compels us into more,
  And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.

  Aaron Hill

  Life, Passion, Fate

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.411

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• In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Art, World

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• In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Vocabulary, Jazz Improvisation

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• You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston
  Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious

  Kevin Heath

  Revenge, Kids, Parenting

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• Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... In the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Patriotic, America, Patriotism

  "Clinton: Iraq Tactics 'Working. We’re Just Years Too Late...'". Hillary Clinton’s remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Missouri, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2007.

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• There is no longer a clear, bright line dividing America's domestic concerns and America's foreign policy concerns...If we want America to stay on the right track, if we want other people to be on that track and have the chance to enjoy peace and prosperity, we have no choice but to try to lead the train.

  William J. Clinton

  America, People, Track

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• It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Law, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.79, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tyrants, Religion, Want

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

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• I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.

  Richard DeVos

  Basketball, Confidence, Attitude

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• In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

  Stephen Covey

  Independent, Self Confidence, Decisions We Make

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Running, Time, Believe

  Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf

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• That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.

  Alan Bold

  Time, Men, Doom

  Alan Norman Bold (1983). “In this corner: selected poems, 1963-1983”

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• As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.

  Ralphie May

  Love, Funny, Romantic

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