Power Of Choice Quotes - Page 2

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Interaction With Others, Giving

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 27, 2013

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• Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.

  Lewis Howes

  Inspirational, Regret, Fear

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• This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Morning, Lying, Dark

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 18, 2012

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Inspirational, Fear

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  You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

  Taylor Swift

  Remembered

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2014

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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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• Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

  Noah Levine

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Future

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• I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect. Most people opt for the easiest version rather than the best.
  But in the end which version lives, which version thrives and which version dies, depends on the choices we make and the people in our lives.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Thinking, People, Choices

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  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.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Always choose attitude over experience. Always.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Attitude, Choices

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2016

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• We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.

  Darren Hardy

  Choices, Ignorant, Naked

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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• Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Life, People

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

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sympathy

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• It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Time

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.100, Bantam

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• Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Inspiration

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• You don't have to go where you don't want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.

  Esther Hicks

  Want, Where You Are, Self Development

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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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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Freedom

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• A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Character, Men

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.13, New Line Publishing

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• Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.250, Random House

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• The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.

  Witness Lee

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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