Quotes with choice

  • In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
  • You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
  • To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
  • I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, ''Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.''
  • I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
  • In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
  • I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
  • Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
  • We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
  • Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
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  • Thomas S. Monson Choose your love, Love your choice.
    Thomas S. Monson
    American religious leader and author (1927 - 2018)
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  • Greg Anderson Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Arnold Toynbee As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Epictetus It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Leadership is a choice, not a position.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Stephen R. Covey There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Horace You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Euripides A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Harry Mathews A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • Bart Stupak All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • A. R. Rahman All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here.
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  • Billy Porter All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Barbara Castle And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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  • Noam Chomsky As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Maya Angelou At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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