Quotes About Choice

Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

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.

to be proactive you must learn to act and not be acted upon.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life.

While we can't always control what happens to us, we can always choose how we react to life's challenges.

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.

REACTIVE LANGUAGE PROACTIVE LANGUAGE There's nothing I can do. Let's look at our alternatives. That's just the way I am. I can choose a different approach. He makes me so mad. I control my own feelings. They won't allow that. I can create an effective presentation.

Muéstrenme a alguien que sea lo suficientemente humilde para aceptar y asumir la responsabilidad de sus circunstancias, y lo bastante valiente para tomar todas las iniciativas que sean necesarias para afrontar creativamente la solución a esos retos, y les demostraré el supremo poder de la elección.

In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance. Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They are value driven; and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn't a function of whether the weather is conducive to it or not.

That language comes from a basic paradigm of determinism. And the whole spirit of it is the transfer of responsibility. I am not responsible, not able to choose my response.

Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation.

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.

ACT OR BE ACTED UPON

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

He could decide within himself how all of this was going to affect him

Because we are, by nature, proactive, if our lives are a function of conditioning and conditions, it is because we have, by conscious decision or by default, chosen to empower those things to control us.

Our basic nature is to act, and not be acted upon. As well as enabling us to choose our response to particular circumstances, this empowers us to create circumstances.

But I kept thinking about it. I really went inside myself and began to ask, 'Do I have the power to choose my response?

We choose—either to live our lives or to let others live them for us. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and to others, little by little we increase our strength until our ability to act is more powerful than any of the forces that act upon us.

Our unique human endowments lift us above the animal world. The extent to which we exercise and develop these endowments empowers us to fulfill our uniquely human potential. Between stimulus and response is our greatest power—the freedom to choose.

We choose—either to live our lives or to let others live them for us.

You cannot change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to always reach your destination." So it is that when disasters occur in our lives and we go within to discover our inner strength or to seek discernment, we have choices to continue in the same direction the storm of life has paved for us, or adjust our sail and get back on track to what we believe and know to be our path in life.