Quotes About Choice

As Henry Ford II said, "Never complain, never explain." No one makes you do anything or feel anything. You are where you are and what you are because you have decided to be there. Everything that you are or ever will be is entirely up to you. If there is any effect in your life that you're not happy about, it is solely up to you to change the causes. You are completely responsible.

Tu mente puede contener sólo un pensamiento a la vez, ya sea positivo o negativo. Puede contener la emoción positiva de la responsabilidad personal o puede contener una emoción negativa de cualquier tipo. Y la elección siempre depende de ti. Lo único en el universo que puedes controlar es el contenido de tu mente consciente.

Every day, and every minute of every day, there is a battle going on inside of you between doing what is right, hard, and necessary (like the angel on one shoulder) or doing what is fun, easy, and of little or no value (like the devil on your other shoulder). Every minute of every day, you must fight and win this battle with the Expediency Factor and resist the pull of the Path of Least Resistance if you truly desire to become everything you are capable of becoming.

You are a "choosing organism." You are constantly making choices, one way or the other. Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities. At each moment, you choose what is more important or of higher value to you over what is less important or of lesser value.

Hasta ahora, ha determinado toda su vida por las elecciones y decisiones que ha hecho o dejado de hacer. Si hay algo en su vida que no le guste, usted es el responsable. Si hay algo de lo que no está contento, a usted le toca dar los pasos necesarios para cambiarlo y mejorarlo de forma que sea más de su gusto.

As Victor Frankl wrote in his best selling book, Logotherapy, "The last great freedom of mankind is the freedom to choose your attitude under any set of external conditions.

Since you can't do everything, you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that really count.

Creative procrastination is the act of thoughtfully and deliberately deciding upon the exact things you are not going to do right now, if ever.

Si no sabes adónde vas, cualquier camino te llevará allí».

You can either make your habits or your habits can make you.

We refuse things we don't want all the time. It is not hard to do. We just say no. This is what I recommend we do with the negative thoughts that appear in our minds. Just refuse the thought. "No, thank you, not today. That thought doesn't feel good." No

To develop a self one must exercise choice and learn from the consequences of those choices; if the only thing you are taught is to comply, you have little way of knowing what you like and want.

They prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

By picking their own punishments, children become more internally driven to avoid them. By choosing their own rewards, children become more intrinsically motivated to achieve them. Let your kids take a greater role in raising themselves.

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

Freedom is the right to be free, and then the obligation to accept responsibility. If you don't understand that, then ugly stuff happens. And when you do understand that, you're prepared to meet the obligations straight-on.

Lifequakes may be voluntary or involuntary, but navigating the transitions that flow from them can only be voluntary. We must choose to deploy the skills.

We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.

On the contrary, said Paul, if they really have accepted Christ by faith, they have accepted the way of Christ and the mind of Christ. The man who really loves God can do as he chooses, for if he really loves God he will choose to do the will of God.

Ramona V. Flowers: What kind of tea do you want? Scott Pilgrim: There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered," Katie says, "but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional.

My love is my business; it has nothing to do with you. You love me, and that isn't personal. You tell the story that I am this, or I am that, and you fall in love with your story. What do I have to do with it? I am here for your perception, as if I had a choice. I am your story, no more and no less. You have never met me. No one has ever met anyone.

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad