Quote: I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
Author: A Course In Miracles Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy
Quote: Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
Author: James Allen 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''
Quote: Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
Author: Eric Allenbaugh American Author of ''Wake-Up Calls''
Quote: The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.
Author: Raul Armesto
Quote: If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
Author: Margaret Atwood 1939-, Canadian Novelist, Poet, Critic
Quote: Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Author: Richard Bach 1936-, American Author
Quote: Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.
Author: Frederick Bailes
Quote: It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.
Author: Sondra Anice Barnes
Quote: Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
Author: Eric Berne 1910-1970, Canadian Psychiatrist, Writer
Quote: Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Quote: I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Refuse the evil, and choose the good. [Isaiah 7:15]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
Author: R. H. Blyth
Quote: I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
Author: James Boswell 1740-1795, British Writer, Journalist
Quote: Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose
Author: Harry Browne 1933-, American Financial Advisor, Writer
Quote: Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Author: Leo Buscaglia American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author
Quote: Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Author: Liz Carpenter American Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Rachel Carson 1907-1964, American Marine Biologist, Author
Quote: You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
Author: Deepak Chopra East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer
Quote: You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Author: Eldridge Cleaver 1935-, American Black Leader, Writer
Quote: Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
Author: Bill Clinton 1946-, Forty-second President of the USA
Quote: On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us --ah! what a dream, to live in that! --the other stifles us at the first breath.
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 1873-1954, French Author
Quote: The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a ''pet'' notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
Author: John Dewey 1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator
Quote: I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
Author: Princess of Wales Diana 1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Quote: Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: You can't choose up sides on a round world.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Author: Tryon Edwards 1809-1894, American Theologian
Quote: Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.
Author: Jon English
Quote: It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
Author: Marian Erickson
Quote: It is not something I must do but something I want to do…
Author: James Fixx
Quote: You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.
Author: Jane Fonda 1937-, American Screen Actor
Quote: He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, American Minister
Quote: A human being is a deciding being.
Author: Viktor E. Frankl 1905-, Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurology, Writer, ''Man's Search for Meaning''
Quote: Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Author: Viktor E. Frankl 1905-, Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurology, Writer, ''Man's Search for Meaning''
Quote: The key to your universe is that you can choose.
Author: Frederick (Carl) Frieseke 1874-1939, American-Born French Painter
Quote: The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
Author: Robert Fritz
Quote: The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith 1908-, American Economist
Quote: Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Author: Jerry Garcia 1945-1995, American Rock Musician, ''Grateful Dead''
Quote: No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Author: Ellen Glasgow 1874-1945, American Novelist
Quote: You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
Author: Edgar A. Guest
Quote: It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
Author: Learned Hand American Judge
Quote: He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
Author: Joel Hawes
Quote: You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.
Author: Shad Helmstetter American Leading Behavioral Psychologist, Author
Quote: It is always your next move.
Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.
Author: Gordon B. Hinckley
Quote: Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
Author: Doug Horton
Quote: If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: We do pretty much whatever we want to.
Author: Philip Johnson 1906-, American Architect and Theorist
Quote: Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Author: Alan Keightley
Quote: Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
Author: David Kelley
Quote: Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.
Author: J. Martin Kohe American Publisher, Author
Quote: Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
Author: J. Martin Kohe American Publisher, Author
Quote: The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
Author: J. Martin Kohe American Publisher, Author
Quote: You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?
Author: J. Martin Kohe American Publisher, Author
Quote: When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred]
Author: Scout Cloud Lee American Author
Quote: I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
Author: Harvey Mackay American Businessman, Speaker, Author
Quote: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Author: Groucho Marx 1895-1977, American Comic Actor
Quote: A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Author: Harry Mathews 1930-, American Novelist
Quote: There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.
Author: Andrew Matthews American Artist, Cartoonist, Author
Quote: Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
Author: W. Mitchell American Businessman, Mayor, Speaker
Quote: I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ''spaceship'' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
Author: Warren Mitchell 1926-, British Actor
Quote: Choose your love, Love your choice.
Author: Thomas S. Monson
Quote: Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Author: Alfred A. Montapert American Author
Quote: The difficulty in life is the choice.
Author: George Moore 1852-1933, Irish Writer
Quote: When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.
Author: Tin Cup Movie
Quote: It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millenium.
Author: Charles Muses
Quote: We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.
Author: Joseph Fort Newton
Quote: People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.
Author: Earl Nightingale 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker
Quote: To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
Author: John Oxenham
Quote: The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
Author: Edward Fredkin's Paradox
Quote: The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Author: Neil Peart
Quote: Choice strengthens all.
Author: Neal Prescot
Quote: As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
Author: Mary Lou Retton American Olympic Gymnast, Speaker
Quote: Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
Author: Mary Caroline Richards
Quote: Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
Author: Pat Riley 1945, American Basketball Coach
Quote: We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events -- how we interpret them -- that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Author: Anthony Robbins 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
Quote: A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Author: Gene Roddenberry American Producer, Director, Creator of Star Trek Series
Quote: One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian
Quote: I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Author: Muriel Rukeyser 1913-1980, American Writer
Quote: The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
Author: Zen Saying
Quote: You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
Author: Solomon Schechter
Quote: The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
Author: Seng-Ts'an
Quote: Every single moment of your life you must choose from a number of alternatives. What you choose determines where you will end up.
Author: Shall Sinha
Quote: I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
Author: Marina Sirtis 1964-, British-born American-born American Actress
Quote: If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...
Author: Cat Stevens
Quote: Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Author: W. Clement Stone 1902-, American Businessman, Author
Quote: If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
Author: David Thomas American Businessman, Founder of Wendy's Restaurants
Quote: You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.
Author: David Thomas American Businessman, Founder of Wendy's Restaurants
Quote: All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Author: Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA
Quote: Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Author: Horace Walpole 1717-1797, British Author
Quote: Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
Author: Mae West 1892-1980, American Actress
Quote: For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
Author: Thornton Wilder 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright
Quote: That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.
Author: Oprah Winfrey 1954-, American TV Personality, Producer, Actress, Author
Quote: When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
Author: Owen Wister 1860-1938, American Writer
Quote: There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.
Author: Dan Zadra
Quote: Every choice you make has an end result.
Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker