Top 1200 Poor Choices Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Act always so as to increase the number of choices

The first miracle after the baptism of the Holy Ghost was wroughtly upon a beggar. It means that the first service of a Holy Ghost-baptized church is to the poor; that its ministry is to those who are lowest down; that its gifts are for those who need them the most. As the Spirit was upon Jesus to preach the gospel to the poor, so His Spirit is upon His servants for the same purpose.

I'm a family person, and you make those choices.

Love takes your choices away.

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

Be fearless in your choices and don't be afraid to be yourself!

Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

When I talk about the city, I talk about a city that elevates people, which is the strength of New York. We always had the ability to do that. We had the services to do that: good schools, living-wage jobs. We're moving away from that toward a two-tiered system: a small group of very wealthy people and the rest of the city, poor and working poor.

You will find no answers here, just choices.

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

We all have choices and must make them for ourselves.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

My nutrition choices are for my health, not to lose weight.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Being independent in my choices is important to me.

Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

There are always more choices than you think.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

Choices not chance determine your destiny.

Bad choices make good stories.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

We need to respect choices that women make.

People have choices. They are going to vote with their feet.

It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.

You are the one who makes the choices that control your fate.

The choices we make, determine our destiny

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.

We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Every day brings new choices.

We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.

Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.

The choices we make define our future.

That's it. I'm going to start making the right choices.

You can't judge my choices without understanding my reasons.

Actors make choices for different reasons.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

An actor is defined by the choices he or she makes.