#choice

We are our choices.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions.

He is free who lives as he chooses; who is neither subject to compulsion, nor hindrance, nor violence.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

If I were forced either to do wrong or to suffer wrong, I would choose to suffer rather than to do wrong.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Virtue is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, determined by rational principle.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, showing the kind of things a man chooses or avoids.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

In the concentration camps, we watched our comrades behave either like animals or like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which is actualized depends on decisions, not on conditions.

Man constantly makes his choice concerning the mass of present potentials: which of these will be condemned to non-being and which will be actualized?

Every moment holds thousands of possibilities, but we can only choose one to make real; all the others are lost forever.

Everything can be taken from a man but the unassailable sovereignty of his inner choice; in that choice lies his eternal freedom.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

To refuse to choose is itself a choice, and often the most cowardly choice of all.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.