Choices Quotes - Page 85

In an ever more open world, building peace through dialogue is no longer a choice but a necessity!

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.

In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

Nothing happens until you decide.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.

Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still manageable and while we still have a choice. The organizational adage, "the more parts, the more trouble," also applies to words. Multiplying words may actually multiply the probability of being misunderstood; economies in expression (without being taciturn or aloof) not only save time, but usually are more honest and more clear.

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.