Quotes About Choice

Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.

Those who would circumcise, implicitly suggest that they know better than nature, God, or whatever power created us and our world.

You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.

I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now?

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.