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"I shall be telling this with a sigh
somewhere ages and ages hence;
two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference."
-- Robert Frost, poet

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny."
-- Thomas S. Monson

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, author

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
-- John Ruskin

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
-- Groucho Marx

"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."
-- Denis Waitley

"Freedom of choice is not a formal abstract capacity which one either 'has' or 'has not'; it is, rather, a function of a person’s character structure. Some people have no freedom to choose the good because their character structure has lost the capacity to act in accordance with the good. Some people have lost the capacity of choosing the evil, precisely because their character structure has lost the craving for evil... The longer we continue to make the wrong decisions, the more our heart hardens; the more often we make the right decisions, the more our heart softens – or better perhaps, becomes alive."
-- Eric Fromm: The Heart of Man

"The greatest power ever bestowed upon mankind is the power of choice. Choose to persist without exception. Hold fast to your dreams and stay the course, even in the face of exhaustion, rejection, and uncertainty."
-- Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift

"The history of free men is never written by chance, but by choice - their choice."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude."
--Judith M. Knowlton

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."-- Thomas Huxley, biologist

"The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage."
-- Rollo May, The Courage to Create

"May I provide a simple formula by which you can measure the choices which confront you. It's easy to remember: 'You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.' Your personal conscience always warns you as a friend before it punishes you as a judge."
-- Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to Perfection - Ensign, May 2002, 100

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things."
-- Bruce Barton (1886-1967, Author and Advertising Executive)

"In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices."
-- James E. Faust, "Choices," Ensign, May 2004, 5

"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself."
-- Robert F. Bennett

"Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made."
-- Barbara Hall, contemporary author, television writer and producer