Quotes About Choice

If you are going to be a winner, you have to acknowledge the truth—it is you who took the actions, thought the thoughts, created the feelings, and made the choices that got you to where you now are. It was you!

You — no one else!

I am in charge of my own spaceship. It's my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or a starting point.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. -Joseph Campbell

If you ain't got no choice, be brave. -Dirk Johnson

HAVE-TO'S PUT YOU IN A POSITION OF PRESSURE, WHEREAS CHOOSE-TO'S PUT YOU IN A POSITION OF POWER.

the truth is you can, over time, learn to choose only uplifting, inspiring, motivational, and empowering thoughts. It is simply a habit that—with intention and discipline—can be developed.

Either accept that you are making the choice to stay where you are, take responsibility for your choice, and stop complaining . . . or . . . take the risk of doing something new and different to create your life exactly the way you want it.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Sólo usted puede decidir qué le conviene y qué precio usted está dispuesto a pagar. Tal vez, en último término, lo que desea no le convenga. Pero, si le conviene, investigue qué debe hacer y póngalo en marcha.

And belief is a choice. It is simply a thought you choose to think over and over until it becomes automatic.

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." That was all. And that was everything.

the very moment you are caught, there is always a chance.

The rain and the smell of night pulled at me. Confused me.) Everything means a choice, she had said, getting one thing and losing one. The love still held me, but all at once I could, despite the rain, admit to myself what I really wanted was this clarity.

OJ Simpson was the original choice for the role of The Terminator, however the studio insisted on finding someone else - obviously Arnie in the end - as no-one would believe that OJ was a remorseless killer.

Queerness offers the promise of failure as a way of life...but it is up to us whether we choose to make good on that promise in a way that makes a detour around the usual markers of accomplishment and satisfaction" (The Queer Art of Failure, "Ending, Fleeing, Surviving")

When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmm boy!

Sister Katherine smiled. 'Such arrogance. You did not choose God, Maria. He chose you. For you, as his servant, there is no such thing as choice. You must do what is right. You may do no other.

The right to choose is always the key to progress for women, as it is for men.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

When we ask it about our current path, we must look at the values we have chosen to live by. Where do we put our time, our strength, our creativity, our love? We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration, or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?