Choices And Decisions Quotes

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  It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 08, 2016

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• 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 a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual Vision

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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  Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Powerful, Past

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sympathy

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• Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

  Denis Waitley

  Choices, Decision, Making Choices

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• The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

  The Rev

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Decisions You Make, Self

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

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• If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivational, Change, Positive

  "The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA" by Emily Shire, www.thedailybeast.com. November 17, 2014.

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• When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Thinking, Giving, Justice

  Advice to a newly appointed colonial governor ignorant in the law, in John Lord Campbell 'The Lives of the Chief Justices of England' (1849) vol. 2, ch. 40

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• When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Nature, Learning

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  If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

  Heath Ledger

  Decisions You Make, People, Choices

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• Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

  James C. Collins

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  "Turn on, tune in - or drown in a sea of mediocrity" by Simon Caulkin, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

  John Dewey

  Spiritual, Choices Made, Discovery

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.351, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Time, Poetry

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

  Hermann Broch

  Believe, Reality, Men

  Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.468, Vintage

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• A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Choices, Decision, Peacefulness

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• You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

  Jeff Gordon

  People, Choices, Decision

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