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 a compromise.
Robert Fritz
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The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Abbe' D'Allanival
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
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It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
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An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
John H. Patterson
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A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Karl Kraus
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When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.
Lord Falkland
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Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.
Phocylides
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We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
Publilius Syrus
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Many at time we look for one thing, and light on another.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Cassell Companion to Quotations
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He sat on the fence so long that the iron entered into his soul.
Lloyd George The Patient Has the Floor
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With each decision, we should be convinced that we're doing the best we can under the circumstances -- best for ourselves, best for our family, best for our loved ones, and, possibly, best for society as well.
Alexandra Stoddard Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
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There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
David Mahoney Leadership: A Treasury of Great Quotations for Those Who Aspire to Lead
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You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is you get fat.
Julian Barnes, in Flaubert's Parrot The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
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Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
Kathleen Casey Theisen The Book of Positive Quotations
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...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 Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler The Book of Positive Quotations
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...you must take responsibility for yourself if you are going to pursue success and a better life in this world.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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He who weighs his responsibilities can bear them.
Martial Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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I have made myself what I am.
Tecumseh A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
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Character is destiny.
Heraclitus Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin; it wuld be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene; if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Karl Jaspers Thoughts on Leadership
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When coasting in our comfort zones, we don't grow. We continue to do more of the same...Maintaining a comfort zone can, paradoxically, lead to discomfort in the long run. If by being comfortable we avoid important life issues, internal tension accumulates...Eventually, as both internal and external pressures for change persist, the "comfort zone" ceases to serve us.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Mme. de Stael Treasury of Women's Quotations
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You can't just change how you think or the that way you act -- you must change the way that you will. You must gain control
Peter Koestenbaum "Do you have the will to lead?" by Polly LaBarre, Fast Company , March 2000
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Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.
Henriette Anne Klauser Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want - and Getting it
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If you want to find what's right for you, sometimes it's enough to figure out what's wrong.
Dale Dauten "A black-and-white hunt for vitality, niche in life" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, September 2, 1999
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean-Nathan The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That's when, "Why me?" becomes a theme song.
Roger Dawson The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
William James The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
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Sometimes what a man escapes to is worse than what he escapes from.
Stan Lynde The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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We are free up to the point of choice; then choice controls chooser.
Mary Crowley Words for All Occasions
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By making choices, we learn to profit from our mistakes. Waiting for the perfect choice is to miss it all.
Alexandra Stoddard Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
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Self-awareness--recognizing a feeling as it happens--is the keystone of
Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.
Clarence Day The Book of Positive Quotations
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...the fact that I practice meditation doesn't mean that I am always calm or kind or gentle, or always present. There are many times when I am not. It doesn't mean that I always know what to do and never feel confused or at a loss. But even being a little more mindful helps me see things I might not have seen and take small but important, sometimes critical steps I might not otherwise have taken.
Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
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Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Greek proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we are on, and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along the way.
Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
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There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
Jan Ashford Treasury of Women's Quotations
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