Quotes About Decision

We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

No matter how long we've walked life's pathway to mediocrity, we can always choose to switch paths. Always. It's never too late. We can find our voice.

While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.

your freedom to choose your response lies the power to achieve growth and happiness.

leadership can eventually become a choice not a position

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law. They are out in the Circle of Concern. We can decide to step in front of a fast-moving train, but we cannot decide what will happen when the train hits us.

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power—the freedom to choose.

Once you have that sense of mission, you have the essence of your own proactivity. You have the vision and the values which direct your life. You have the basic direction from which you set your long- and short-term goals. You have the power of a written constitution based on correct principles, against which every decision concerning the most effective use of your time, your talents, and your energies can be effectively measured.

That's right. So you have to weigh that consequence against the other consequence and make a choice. I know if it were me, I'd choose to go on the tennis trip. But never say you have to do anything.

In your freedom to choose your response lies the power to achieve growth and happiness.

In the words of Phillips Brooks: Some day, in the years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now… Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

First, you are not being acted upon by other people or circumstances. You are proactively choosing what you determine to be the best alternative. You make your decision consciously and knowledgeably.

a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.

the real struggle is here, now… Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer.

We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so, we choose the attendant consequence. When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other

Manage from the left; lead from the right.

entre el estímulo y la respuesta, el ser humano tiene la libertad interior de elegir.

Remind yourself of the gap between stimulus and response. Make a commitment to yourself to exercise your freedom to choose.

Determine whether it is a direct, indirect, or no control problem.

response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.

Hasta que no hayamos elegido nuestras motivaciones, no podemos elegir vivir nuestra vida de verdad. Todo es fruto de los motivos y de la motivación, que constituyen las raíces de nuestros deseos más profundos.

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.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural law.

you'll feel comfortable about your decision. Whatever you choose to do, you can focus on it and enjoy it.