Choice/Choosing Quotes

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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

- Rosa Parks

You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart

‎Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.

- Jillian Michaels

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

- Tara Brach

Life is the sum of all your choices.

- Albert Camus

Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they've received and what problems they are facing.

- Michael Lerner

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

- Lillian Dickson

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

- Marshall Rosenberg

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

- Madame de Stael

Reason is also choice.

- John Milton

Action expresses priorities.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

- Simone Weil

The expedient thing and the right thing are seldom the same thing.

- Charlie Brower

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

- Henri Nouwen

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

- Peter Ustinov

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

- Rachel Carson

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

- William James

I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.

- Ellen DeGeneres

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

- Barbara De Angelis

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

- David Suzuki

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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

- Barbara De Angelis