Quotes on Choices

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self... Prisoners in the world of object, they have no choice but to submit to the demands of matter! They are pressed down and crushed by external forces: fashion, the market, events, public opinion. Never in a whole lifetime do they recover their right mind!... What a pity!

Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

It is a given that we will all make some mistakes in life. It is a given that you will make inappropriate choices for inappropriate reasons. They will in no way affect your worth. No matter what you say or what you do, nothing can minimize the worth of your being. Your worth is a gift from God.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.