"You are your choices."
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"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."
"We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals."
"Life is the sum of your choices."
"Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting."
"You're picky about the car you drive. You're picky about what you wear. You're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think."
"Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions."
"Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of."
"You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success."
"Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own."
"To me, success is choice and opportunity."
"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
"We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother"
"When you have the choice between being right and being kind just choose kind."
"You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be."
"The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day."
"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."
"And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision."
"We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased."
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other"