“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
William James
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.”
Viktor Frankl
“This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.”
Scott Reed
“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”
C. Wright Mills
“No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.”
Croesus of Lydia
“You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.”
Sidney Madwed
“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”
Michael Caine