Life Outcomes Quotes

Remember, it's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives.

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.

I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen - right?

You are the sum total of your choices.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.

Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

We have the prospect of intervening in the natural lottery.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.