Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.
Life is a highway - the enjoyment you get depends on the lane you choose.
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is, ‘Which path will you choose?’. This is something only you can decide.
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait. . . and peace will appear.
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.
Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.
People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God's best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.
It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.
I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!
I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.
I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.
After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
At the beginning of his administration, Reagan tried set the basis for American military intervention in El Salvador - which is about what Kennedy did when he came into office in regard to Vietnam. Well, when Kennedy tried it in Vietnam, it just worked like a dream. Virtually nobody opposed American bombing of South Vietnam in 1962. It was not an issue. But when Reagan began to talk of involving American forces in El Salvador there was a huge popular uproar. And he had to choose a much more indirect way of supporting the collection of gangsters in power there. He had to back off.
You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don't choose to be.
Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.