Quotes about choice

The simplest formular for a fulfilled life is God+Wisdom+Industry! God is the source of your destiny and purpose Wisdom is the potential he gives to you to make right choices Your industry reveals your responsibility to release whatever the God of your purpose introduced you to by your divine thoughts and imaginations!

Change isn’t a choice it’s already happening. You are atoms and molecules in motion… you can’t avoid change you ARE change. The question is whether you will EMBRACE the power of change to enhance your life or continue to exhaust yourself in the pointless endeavor to halt it.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it?

I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.

I'm in a monogamous relationship and have been for many, many years. I think it's a choice. I don't think you can generalize, though, and what works for me may not work for other people, but I don't think everybody cheats. We're all different.

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable that's survival.

I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films!

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

Isabelle had always simply reacted in her life. Someone left her behind she followed. Someone told her she couldn't do something she did it. Every barrier she turned into a gate.

You don’t become the person you wish to become you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes it comes by choices!

Don’t rush to justify yourself with a verbal argument your choice of words may unmake what you made.

Don’t give up on trying everyday those who gave up yesterday are living today regretting that they never tried again and again.

Choose a good attitude and that is the key to making great impacts! Never be fooled to follow the wrong direction you dreams will be alive and grow into success!

You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option!

God did not force Salvation on humanity He made it a gift dependent on the free will of the recipient because He is not interested in numbers. Mega Churches are numbers. Matthew 7:13-14.

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice

Your choice is a mighty weapon be wise about it.

You just think that your future or you intend to devote yourself to the humanity. The choice is in your hands living within you or enjoy the universe.

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

Know how to choose. Most things in life depend on it. You need good taste and an upright judgement intelligence and application are not enough. There is no perfection without discernment and selection.

A good shepherd always gives people freedom to choose he doesn’t lay down conditions or use any kind of pretext to restrict people. This shepherd resembles Jesus and people will not even want to leave him.

And that’s the truth I needed to swallow: people don’t step out and love for you that’s on you. You have to be the one to get down deep enough and whisper the words people can’t always say for you - whether you believe in them full or not - “I choose you. I choose you.

You want to set me free? Do it. You want to turn me in? You can do that too. You're the only one with the choice. And that bullet in your back doesn't mean you've got any less choice than you ever did. Live free of fear if you want to. We all carry something inside us that could kill us yours just has a name. You want to change your life? Change it. You have no less of a right to be happy than the rest of us.

Never choose a situation which is a burden to your command only to satisfy fellows' standards rather choose a situation that may be difficult but is compliment to your will.

I had a dream about you I’ve had multiple dreams about you. If I had to choose between the real you and the dream you then…Goodnight.

There is a quality about women who choosemen sparinglyit appears in their walkin their eyesin their laughter and in theirgentle hearts.

The healthy life: It’s not just about losing the weight it’s about losing the mentality that got you there.

The choice [is} a familiar one stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective.

Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them keep making them until you are confident in what you see.

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success success is deliberate!

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

Give your choice a chance do not give up.

Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.

My career choice is my career choice. Just stepping out of that zone, to be able to be a provider. I understand my position as a provider and my role as a dad also... Just being able to be comfortable with it.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

Your beliefs are decisions they are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.

You may be wrong at first you can still be right at last.

Happiness can't be made it's been around since forever... just freely waiting to be chosen.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

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

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.

God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human being turned things around and made it to be endured.

Your good character and attitude should be your message to the world.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can't change anymore.

The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating on a mat. It happens in the throes of conflict—when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.

Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.

Sometimes the things that happen can be changed. Sometimes they cannot. Which time is this?

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.

I am choosing to flow with the current of life rather than lying in a tide pool experiencing the same things again and again.

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute I thought, he's some mother's son just as Hector was, and aren't we women all sisters? If I killed him, I thought, wouldn't It be like killing family?Wouldn't it be making some other mother grieve? So I didn't kill him, but if I had, I might have saved Hector's child. Dead or damned, that's the choice we make. Either you me

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off the path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the road

Three things make people want to change. One is that they hurt sufficiently. They have beat their heads against the same wall so long that they decide they have had enough. They have invested in the same slot machines without a pay-off for so long that they finally are willing either to stop playing, or to move on to others. Their migraines hurt, their ulcers bleed. They are alcoholic. They have hit the bottom. They beg for relief. They want to change.Another thing that makes people want to chan

It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual books everyone's already talking about and see what you can find on your own.Making definitive choices about what we spend our time on as readers can make a statement, a difference. We can lift other writers up, give space and attention to more voices than the ones that already have all the space and attention.There is power in what we choose to consume as readers, and there is power in w

Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it

To make the best dicision for a book first check out the title, second check out the cover, third to check out the category what type is it - is it a horror or thriller or it's a psychology - it's important this. Then for sure check out little what's about the book. By openning it and reading the first 3 pages or as much as possible to make your decision!

If your financial life is not in order, every other area of your life will be in disorder.

If you are straightforward, then others will have no choice but to be straightforward with you. If someone curses you, is he doing so at your responsibility? Is he doing so at God’s responsibility? No. He curses you at his own responsibility. And if you were to curse back, then it will be at your responsibility.

Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married.

There are many differing viewpoints on nature versus nurture, and there are those who believe that bad behavior can be excused and understood if a person doesn't know better. The theory that someone who has been abused as a child will go on to abuse their own children, and so on, because they don't know differently is widely held. But children know. We all know.Learned behavior. When a child is abused, he or she knows, even as it is happening, that it is wrong. I knew. I was abused. When a child

We've reached a point in human history where higher education no longer works. As a result of technology, higher education in its traditional college setting no longer works. It will never be effective or progressive enough to keep up with the growing needs of employers who look to college institutions for their future employees.I can appreciate the good intent the college system set out to achieve. For previous generations, the formula actually worked. Students enrolled into universities that w

There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we humans are. Once, when I was nineteen, on the subway in Boston I lost my balance slightly and bumped into an elderly woman. I quickly apologized and she replied, "Well, hold on to something, stupid." There it is. That's it. That's it in a nutshell. I don't want to sound negative, but I think every fetus should be shown a film of that incident, maybe projected up on the uterine wall, and then asked

Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice.