Top 91 Quotes About Ability To Choose
#1. I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.
Brie Larson
#2. Life is about choices, and you have the ability to choose. You always have had this ability. I suggest that not only do you have the ability, you have the responsibility to make choices for yourself. It is your life, and you are in the driver's seat, if you choose to be.
Lou Tice
#3. The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.
Rashid Johnson
#4. Always choose to trust yourself and your ability to listen.
Bryant McGill
#5. Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses.
Tom Platz
#6. Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit yourself to what is best for you.
Paulo Coelho
#7. Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#8. To simplify is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to refuse to let unimportant things take over the things of real importance.
Carolyn J. Rasmus
#10. You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.
Glenn Greenwald
#11. Intelligence doesn't always equate to common sense. Or, for that matter, the ability to fully choose one's path in life.
Ais
#12. The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.
Robert Cialdini
#13. An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
Eric Maisel
#14. Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Frankl discovered that a human being's fundamental dignity lies in his capacity to choose his response to any situation - his response-ability.
Fred Kofman
#16. It is not my place to judge any person's beliefs, but choose rather to celebrate their ability to believe.
Tom Althouse
#17. Human mortality linked to the human ability consciously to choose how to act by exhibiting free will, humility, hard work, kindness, and compassion provide exemplary opportunities to learn and develop self-discipline.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#18. Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
Nancy Reagan
#19. The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
William P. Young
#20. By properly deploying both incentives and nudges, we can improve our ability to improve people's lives, and help solve many of society's major problems. And we can do so while still insisting on everyone's freedom to choose.
Richard H. Thaler
#21. Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override impulsive behavior. Not so in a brain affected by addiction. This is how Satan steals our ability to choose wisely. Addiction costs us the ability to exercise our agency.
Toni Sorenson
#23. Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
Paulo Coelho
#24. I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Lady Gaga
#25. Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.
Charles Eames
#26. Our ability to choose is sacred. It's what makes humans special.
Mark Andrew Poe
#28. When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.
Sheena Iyengar
#29. All people have the ability to be a monster, some choose not to be that way.
Rae Hachton
#30. Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.
Tony Robbins
#31. We choose how we'll look at things. We retain the ability to inject perspective into a situation. We can't change the obstacles themselves - that part of the equation is set - but the power of perspective can change how the obstacles appear.
Ryan Holiday
#32. You don't have to be a brilliant historian to know that in Europe, messing with countries' borders, messing with their self-determination, their ability to choose their own futures, this is extremely dangerous, and that's why I think it is important to stand up to Putin.
David Cameron
#33. The truth is that momentum, in the sense in which we are discussing, is a feeling, and if it's a feeling, that means we have the ability to have it on our side at all times if we so choose.
Eric Thomas
#34. We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal ... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.
Peter McWilliams
#35. I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
Jesse Ventura
#36. But the tree represents the freedom that God gives human beings to choose God's way or another way. God deemed the ability to choose to be an essential part of human existence.
Adam Hamilton
#37. Tact is the ability to formulate your thoughts, carefully choose your words and effectively communicate them without offending anyone. This is the most difficult skill to achieve, the best skill anyone can possess, and the most important skill in our daily lives.
Uzoma Nnadi
#38. Empathy was a sword with two edges. I was blessed with the ability to care deeply for people, and cursed with the knowledge that they would nearly always choose the worst for themselves.
Seth King
#39. You have the ability to choose your thoughts,
to control your emotions,
and to determine your actions.
Thus you decide your fate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#41. The way I look at scripture, we're given one right and only one--the ability to choose. Anything and everything else we are given is grace.
Darlene Schacht
#42. And she liked it. The power over this man. The ability to choose who survived. To take lives and twist them as she pleased. She was power.
Michael Walterich
#43. The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
William James
#44. Apparently, it can be easy to forget that other people have minds with the same general capacities and experiences as your own. Once seen as lacking the ability to reason, to choose freely, or to feel, a person is considered something less than human.
Nicholas Epley
#45. Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
Will Durant
#46. If we aren't focused on living life to the best of our ability, we're slowly dying a death that's of our own choosing. The odd thing is we get to pick the course we take. Why would someone choose not to live life at full capacity? Scott Hildreth, Unleashed
Scott Hildreth
#47. Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
Stephen Covey
#48. The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.
Michael Gove
#50. Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#51. The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.
Greg McKeown
#53. In my present life from day to day, I attempt to improve my understanding of God by responding to Him in three basic ways: by moving outwards into positive action, by exercising my ability to choose positive thoughts, and by allowing myself to be drawn inwards to positive being.
A.A. World Services Inc.
#54. It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck
Guy Gavriel Kay
#55. We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.
Robert Grudin
#56. Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The use of power is not to be taken lightly, for it is never without consequence.
Emily Thorne
#57. The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
#58. You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice has become nothing but an illusion for you.
Lionel Suggs
#59. Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.
Marla Gibbs
#60. Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue ... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.
Dinesh D'Souza
#61. responsibility - "response-ability" - the ability to choose your response.
Stephen R. Covey
#62. The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.
Wayne W. Dyer
#63. No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
Viktor E. Frankl
#64. With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#65. Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.
Theodore Zeldin
#66. The facts themselves do not compel belief. God will not force us to trust Him. God gives us the ability to respond and graciously allows us to choose how we will use the freedom that He gave us.
Holly Ordway
#67. Ham rubbed his chin. I don't know, Breeze. It's an interesting question. By influencing her emotions, did you take away her ability to choose? If, for instance, she were to kill or steal while under your control, would the crime be hers or yours?
Brandon Sanderson
#68. The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#69. The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.
Aubrey De Grey
#70. Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands.
Stevie Nicks
#71. The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.
Alexander Chee
#72. You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.
Albert Ellis
#73. Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.
Allen Wheelis
#74. I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
Adam Hamilton
#75. My imperfections will never override God's promises. God's promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.
Lysa TerKeurst
#76. Be very attentive towards the child's evolving World of Senses that needs Stability, Routine, & Structure, World of Emotions that needs Love, Freedom & Creativity and World of Thoughts that needs Discrimination as an Ability to choose Right Thinking, Emotions, Behaviour.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#77. The highest of all human abilities is the ability each one of us has to choose how we respond to the environment we find ourselves within.
Robin S. Sharma
#78. Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
Soren Kierkegaard
#79. Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now.
Timothy Ferriss
#80. In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
Novak Djokovic
#81. I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#82. You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
Ben Carson
#83. Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
Rollo May
#84. Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.
James Hunter
#85. One of the few advantages man has over other animals is the ability to choose the way to bring on his own death. Food may well kill me, but it's also what has made life such a pleasure.
Peter Benchley
#86. Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne W. Dyer
#87. No destiny is set by any birth. no matter how lowly or how high. All creatures have the right and ability to choose who and what they become...
Be it good or evil.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#88. Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.
Seth
#89. You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.
Rhonda Byrne
#90. Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Simone Weil
#91. I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.
Amy Sedaris
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