The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon. — Dallas Willard
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil. — Origen
When you make a choice, you change the future. — Deepak Chopra
This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. — Charles Duhigg
You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life. — Zig Ziglar
We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice. — Sogyal Rinpoche
It's all about choices! You choose, you make the rules, not tobacco companies, not addiction — John Kehoe
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. — Viktor E. Frankl
We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness. — Bruce H. Lipton
Short Power Of Choice Quotes
What feels good is choice. Having the freedom of choice. — Bernard Arnault
In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice. — DJ Khaled
We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us. — Serj Tankian
Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. — John C. Maxwell
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose. — Rollo May
You have the power to choose how you live your life; don’t let anyone else dictate it for you. — Joe Rogan
No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice." — Deepak Chopra
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
The Power Of Choice Quotes
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government. — Alexander Hamilton
You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. — Taylor Swift
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger. — Kgalema Motlanthe
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character. — Lysa TerKeurst
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. — Kara Goucher
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. — Rob Bell
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice. — Brian Herbert
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate. — Cory Booker
We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God. — Sheri L. Dew
Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do. — Bob Goff
Power Of Goodness Quotes
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. — Anne Frank
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. — Alexis de Tocqueville
You have the power to say - This is not how my story will end.
Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. — Joseph Murphy
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. — John Dewey
Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love. — Nachman of Breslov
Patience is when you're supposed to be mad but you choose to understand.
In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy. — Trevor Noah
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. — John Stuart Mill
It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals. — Jean-Paul Marat
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. — Beatrix Potter
Freedom Of Choice Quotes
[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse. — David Hume
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
I got two choices, both require pain
One’s the pain of change and the pain of staying the same
One of ‘em leads to joy, other one leads to shame
One of ‘em leads to freedom, the other keeps me in chains. — Andy Mineo
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
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity. — Henepola Gunaratana
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein
Love Is A Choice Quotes
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other. — Bell Hooks
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. — Amy Bloom
True love - that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy - is a choice. It's a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances. — Mark Manson
Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving. — Gary Chapman
Love is a choice you make everyday. — Gary Chapman
I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list. — Todd Blackledge
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love. — Gary Chapman
Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. — Lysa TerKeurst
Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think. — Gerald Jampolsky
Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS! — Viktor E. Frankl
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. — Viktor E. Frankl
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty. — Chief Joseph
Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice. — Erik Erikson
The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. — Bell Hooks
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. — John Diefenbaker
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice — Gordon B. Hinckley
Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. — Mario Vargas Llosa
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me. — Paulo Coelho
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. — Wayne Dyer
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting. — Albert Ellis
Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses. — Tom Platz
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get. — Hunter S. Thompson
Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do. — Nancy Reagan
People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice. — Stephen R. Gregg
With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred. — Michelle Cruz
Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman? — Susan B. Anthony
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might. — James Hunter
Free Choice Quotes
God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice. — Billy Graham
My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants. — Moshe Feldenkrais
I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. — Bayazid Bastami
I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. — Bayazid AlBistami
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free. — J.P. Moreland
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds. — Dante Alighieri
And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare. — Theodore William Schultz
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not. — Emanuel Lasker
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other. — M. Scott Peck
Personal Choice Quotes
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. — Ralph Marston
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first. — Robert K. Greenleaf
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher
People would say 'Who is a leader?' A leader is a person that does the work. It's very simple. It's a personal choice for people who choose to put in their time and their commitment to do the work. It's a personal choice. — Dolores Huerta
I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice. — Chance the Rapper
My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way — Ali Shariati
If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you. — Ruby Rose
Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out. — Gabrielle Bernstein
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. — Milan Kundera
I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper. — Akira Toriyama
Individual Choice Quotes
For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation in order to highlight their individual characteristics. — Akira Toriyama
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. — Edward O. Thorp
Being a hero is a choice you can make, not a cape someone else will drape over you. You make your own cape. — Alexi Pappas
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals. — Vayalar Ravi
Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot. — Joel Greenblatt
I think Americans are going to understand that their individual choice is really what's going to matter in the end. Now is the time for doctors to step up. — Peter A. McCullough
Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices — Amin Maalouf
As an American, you can do whatever you want to do, and you can choose whatever side you want to be on. — Dana White
You don't have to build the habits that everyone tells you to build. — James Clear
Make a choice: Continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. — Meghan Markle
Our Choices Quotes
We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything. — Charles R. Swindoll
Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. — Liam James
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. — R. C. Sproul
To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history. — Christine Caine
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. — Will Smith
Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother — Jane Goodall
Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period. — Wayne Dyer
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. — Deepak Chopra
Our genes are not our destiny, they are influenced by our environment and lifestyle choices. — Rhonda Patrick
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life. — Jim Rohn
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. — Ralph Marston
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return? — Adam Grant
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! — Jim Rohn
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. — Stephen Covey
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government . — James Bovard
I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other's successes, knowing there is plenty for us all. — Louise Hay
We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away. — Kris Carr
Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present. — Noah Levine
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? — Eric Allen
The First Principle of the Nuremberg Code is: The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. — Robert W. Malone
Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time. — Lysa TerKeurst
Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies? — Lysa TerKeurst
I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now? — Fred Small
Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself. — Caroline Myss
The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing, which is the state. How bad a choice that is, let Germany and Russia in recent years testify. — Sam Shoemaker
We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world. — Dan Millman
Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This short, powerful statement assured me that I have the freedom, in spite of and because of my birth, body, race, gender expectations, and economic resources, to define myself for myself and for others. — Janet Mock
We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face. — Roger Crawford
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
Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live. — Alan Cohen
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi
Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him. — Maximus the Confessor
If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. — Tony Robbins
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. — James Allen
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
The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. — Eleanor Roosevelt
We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice. — Tom Hiddleston
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment. — Marianne Williamson
Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again. — Robert Kiyosaki
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