Quotes About Choice

The truth is that things don't matter equally and success is found in doing what matters most.

Equality is a lie. Understanding this is the basis of all great decisions.

My mom lived to be ninety-five. Every morning I would ask her, "Are you going to have a good day?" She would always answer, "I choose to have a good day. I don't have enough days left in my life to have a bad one." She was right, she didn't. And neither do I!

they favor new information over old, even if the older information is more valuable.

When you say yes to something, it's imperative that you understand what you're saying no to.

Every minute of every day, the question is never will we be doing something, but rather what that something is we'll be doing. Sometimes

When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover. Even if you're sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices—accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever.

The question of balance is really a question of priority. When you change your language from balancing to prioritizing, you see your choices more clearly and open the door to changing your destiny.

A big opportunity is better than a small one, but a small problem is better than a big one.

They pause just long enough to decide what matters and

The best decision gets traded for any decision, and what should be progress simply becomes a trap.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That

You know about habits. They can be hard to break—and hard to create. But we are unknowingly acquiring new ones all the time. When we start and continue a way of thinking or a way of acting over a long enough period, we've created a new habit. The choice we face is whether or not we want to form habits that get us what we want from life. If we do, then the Focusing Question is the most powerful success habit we can have.

Every minute of every day, the question is never will we be doing something, but rather what that something is we'll be doing.

As coisas que mais importam nunca devem ficar à mercê de coisas que importam menos." Johann Wolfgang von

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That's it. That

Here's the truth: not everyone will, but anyone can.

The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others

The connection path is different from the desperation path or the contradiction path.

The word euthanasia literally means "good death.

Proverbs takes a supremely pragmatic approach: "A wife of noble character who can find?" (31:10). This verse assumes that we are involved in a serious pursuit, actively engaging our minds to make a wise choice. And the top thing a young man should consider is this: "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised" (Prov. 31:30).

Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over-expectations, or thanksgivings. That choice will result in a birth-and the child will be named either contempt, or respect.