The Significance of Our Choices Aim high choose

The Significance of Our Choices

Aim high, choose noble ends. - Baha'i Writings

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

What the wise choose The unwise people take; what best men do The multitude will follow. - Hindu Writings

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Khalil Gibran

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

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are. - Edgar A. Guest

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. - Robert Fritz

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

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so. - J. Michael Straczynski

Life is a sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there. - Kofi Annan

If thine eyes be turned towards mercy, forsake things that profit thee, and cleave unto that which will profit mankind. And if thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose thou for thy neighbour that which thou choosest for thyself. - Baha’i Writings

Heaven on earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find. - Wayne Dyer

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfil the deepest capacities of our real selves. - Thomas Merton

Don't you ever wonder maybe if you took a left turn instead of a right you could be someone different? - Anonymous

It is always your next move. - Napoleon Hill

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. - Leo Buscagli

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. - Aristotle

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbour, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer to the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. - Baha’i Writings

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

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

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. - Hindu Scriptures

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. - Henry David Thoreau

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be. - Ayn Rand

Until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday”, that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise”. - Stephen R. Covey

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. - Anais Nin

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom. . . The power to choose, to respond, to change. - Stephen R. Covey

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. - Gary Collins

In all the action or inaction of man, he receives power from the help of God; but the choice of good or evil belongs to the man himself. - Baha'i Writings

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. . . and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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 things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? - W. Clement Stone

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. - Cherie Carter-Scott

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. - Robert F. Bennett

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

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

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. - Robert Fritz

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold…For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. - Christian Scriptures

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. - Valerie Bertinelli

Violence must be put down! Against cruelty make a stand, ye who would make sure of the reward of Good Thought through Right, to whose company the holy man belongs. - Zoroastrian Writings

If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance. - Susan Del Gatto

Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of ‘What if. ’ - Dodinsky

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives. - Frederick F. Flack

Man reacheth perfection through good deeds, voluntarily performed, not through good deeds the doing of which was forced upon him. And sharing is a personally chosen righteous act: that is, the rich should extend assistance to the poor, they should expend their substance for the poor, but of their own free will, and not because the poor have gained this end by force…voluntary sharing, the freely-chosen expending of one's substance, leadeth to society's comfort and peace. It lighteth up the world; it bestoweth honour upon humankind. - Baha’i Writings

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events. - Gerda Lerner

By the choices and acts of our lives, we create the person that we are and the faces that we wear. By the choices and acts of our lives we give to the world wherein our lives are lived, hoping that our neighbours will find our contributions to be of worth, and hoping that the world will be a little more gracious for our time in it. - Kenneth Patton

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. - Viktor Frankl

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe. - Barbara De Angelis

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others…Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you posses. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace. - Kent Nerburn

We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a selflimiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. - Albert Bandura

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go. - Dr Seuss, ‘Oh, The Places You’ll Go!’

Each man has been placed in a post of honor, which he must not desert. A humble workman who commits an injustice is as much to blame as a renowned tyrant. Thus we all have our choice between justice and injustice…I hope that each one of you will become just, and direct your thoughts towards the unity of mankind; that you will never harm your neighbours nor speak ill of any one; that you will respect the rights of all men, and be more concerned for the interests of others than for your own. - Baha’i Writings