Inspire-U-2-Make-Choices

Encourage the Development of the Characteristics of the Hopeful: Perception of Control

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.  

- A Course In Miracles  

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  

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 Allenbaugh  

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.  

- Raul Armesto  

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.  

- Richard Bach  

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.  

- Francis Bacon  

Man's power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.  

- Frederick Bailes  

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life.  

- Deuteronomy 30:19, Bible  

Refuse the evil, and choose the good.  

- Isaiah 7:15, Bible  

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.  

- R H Blyth  

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.  

- James Boswell  

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.  

- Les Brown  

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose  

- Harry Browne  

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.  

- Liz Carpenter  

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  

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.  

- Eldridge Cleaver  

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.  

- Wayne Dyer  

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.  

- Tryon Edwards  

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.  

- Jon English  

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.  

- Epictetus  

A human being is a deciding being.  

- Viktor E Frankl  

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.  

- Viktor E Frankl  

The key to your universe is that you can choose.  

- Frederick Carl Frieseke  

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.  

- Robert Frost  

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.  

- John Kenneth Galbraith  

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.  

- Jerry Garcia  

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.  

- Ellen Glasgow  

It is always your next move.  

- Napoleon Hill  

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.  

- Doug Horton  

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

- William James  

Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.  

- David Kelley  

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.  

- J Martin Kohe  

You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?  

- J Martin Kohe  

Let us choose to believe something good can happen.  

- J Martin Kohe  

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.  

- Harvey Mackay  

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  

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  

Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.  

- W Mitchell  

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ''spaceship'' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.  

- Warren Mitchell  

Choose your love, Love your choice.  

- Thomas S Monson  

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.  

- Alfred A Montapert  

The difficulty in life is the choice.  

- George Moore  

When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.  

- Tin Cup Movie  

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty -- that is the test of living.  

- Joseph Fort Newton  

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.  

- Earl Nightingale  

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.  

- Neil Peart  

Choice strengthens all.  

- Neal Prescot  

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.  

- Mary Lou Retton  

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.  

- Pat Riley  

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.  

- Anthony Robbins  

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.  

- Anthony Robbins  

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.  

- Anthony Robbins  

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.  

- Eleanor Roosevelt  

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.  

- Solomon Schechter  

Every single moment of your life you must choose from a number of alternatives. What you choose determines where you will end up.  

- Shall Sinha  

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.  

- W Clement Stone  

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.  

- David Thomas  

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.  

- Harry S Truman  

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.  

- Source Unknown  

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.  

- Source Unknown  

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.  

- Source Unknown  

There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.  

- Source Unknown  

Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.  

- Source Unknown  

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.  

- Denis Waitley  

There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.  

- Dan Zadra  

Every choice you make has an end result.  

- Zig Ziglar  

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