Top 1200 Choose Wisely Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord, because when you don`t choose you don`t help the trap to be there - the trap is also created by your choice.

A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao Tzu. How to drop the mind? - don't choose! That's why he never prescribes any meditation, because then there is no need for any meditation.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

I love performing, and I love the idea of people buying records. I don't particularly like the idea of people knowing me or thinking they do, but that's a part of what I choose. I choose not to go to college; I choose to be a singer.

In America, we have freedom of choice. But some are free to choose between Lamborghini and Rolls Royce while others are free to choose which dumpster they're going to have their meal out of next. Some are free to choose which, you know, homes and farms to foreclosed on, while others choose which bridge they're going to sleep under tonight.

I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.

I wisely started with a map.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

I have lived poverty. I didn't choose it. No one would choose humiliation, pain, and rage.

The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we're going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we're going to be happy or whether we're going to be sad.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

Every single day I'm alive or you're alive, we're choosing this life and this persona. We choose to be the stay-at-home mom who loves baking and Pilates. We choose to be a hipster who loves coffee shops and artisan goods. We choose to be a lawyer who runs marathons and only eats organic.

There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.

I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I choose to hunt, and I choose to fish. Everything I've done has been totally legal.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly as precious as life itself. Often, however, agency is misunderstood. While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequence of those choices. We are free to take drugs or not. But once we choose to use a habit-forming drug, we are bound to the consequences of that choice. Addiction surrenders later freedom to choose.

The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.