Quotes on Ability To Choose

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.