Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.Deepak Chopra
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.Langston Hughes
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
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.Rollo May
When anybody can build anything, the taste to know what to build becomes the whole game.Andrew Ambrosino
You're going to pay a price for every thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.Jordan B. Peterson
When you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.Miles Davis
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site.Frank Lloyd Wright
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.Gilles Deleuze
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.Roy T. Bennett
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.Brian Herbert
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 one who’ll decide where to go.Dr. Seuss
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.Carlos Castaneda
Five minutes after birth, they decide your name, religion, nationality and sect. And you spend the rest of your life defending what you did not choose.Arthur Schopenhauer
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.Christopher Reeve
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.James C. Collins
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.Stephen Sondheim
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.John Ruskin
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.Heraclitus
Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.Lewis Howes
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