Choices Quotes - Page 31

• The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

  Po Bronson

  Differences, Discipline, Care

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• I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Discipline

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• One study says that 90 percent of our everyday behavior is based on our habits. . . That means how we treat people, how we spend our money, what we watch, what we listen to - 90 percent of the time, we're on autopilot. We do what we've always done.

  Joel Osteen

  Mean, Discipline, People

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

  Joel Osteen

  Running, Pain, Past

  Joel Osteen (2007). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.

  Zig Ziglar

  Discipline, Today, Tomorrow

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• If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Good Life, Mistake

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• The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given culture reveals its understanding of life through the choices it makes in production and consumption... a great deal of educational and cultural work is urgently needed, including the education of consumers in the responsible use of their power of choice.

  Pope John Paul II

  Educational, Teaching, Order

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• Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.

  J. Michael Bishop

  Hope, Future, Science

  J. Michael BISHOP (2009). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Every time you make the right choice in the face of potential criticism you build strength that makes choosing the right easier the next time. When you make it clear that you will not vary from your standards, you will be led to individuals like yourself and the criticism from others will become less intense.

  Richard G. Scott

  Criticism, Next, Faces

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• Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

  John Robbins

  Ignorance, Blessing, Calling

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• In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

  Aimee Mann

  Recovery, Thinking, People

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• Even though i have no other choice but to marry you... I Just want to make it clear that i love and will always love Matt Hardy

  Amy Dumas

  Wrestling, Want, Clear

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• The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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• When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

  Noemie Lenoir

  Thinking, Two, Good Things

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• Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.

  Mickey Rourke

  Trust, Real, Men

  "Mickey Rourke Talks Immortals, Life, and Sin City". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Thinking, Decision, Levels

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• Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

  Stephen Covey

  Environment, Genes, Nurture

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Heaven, Ladders

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Heaven, Negative

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• I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice.

  Kurt Rambis

  Humor, Multiple Choice, Long

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• The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

  Peter McWilliams

  War, People, Drug

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Nfl, Lazy

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• Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

  Fiona Wood

  Sports, Education, Book

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• When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is your calling- and no matter what it is, if you go with it, you'll be guided, guarded, and assured of success. When a purpose or path is laid before you, you have the choice to just trust and let it flow, or remain stuck in fear. Trusting the perfection that resides within you is the key.

  Louise Hay

  Strong, Monday, Keys

  Louise Hay (2011). “21 Days to Master Affirmations”, p.79, Hay House, Inc

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• Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

  Evo Morales

  Energy, Climate, Way

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