The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices

Make good choices. The environment in which you dwell can have a high influence on what you will achieve. Friends you associate yourself with have the potential to reduce or upgrade your brand. What you...

As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life...

The hardest choices in life aren’t between what’s right and what’s wrong but between what’s right and what’s best.

When I was three years old and in my mother’s arms, she looked down at me and said, “Son, the way I’m taking care of you now, when you get old, always have a woman...

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

We are our choices.

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet – the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the...

Our lives are like these things I make. Turn ’em, build ’em, bake ’em in fire. That’s what you’ve been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don’t have the right to choose whether he...

So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn’t...

Remember: There’s a reason the fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers.

I say this because all religions, accurately understood, will take away your fear of not being enough. I believe there is a way to understand the tenets of your religion, right now, that will take...

You need tell me nothing; I already know your heart. Through your simplest choices you’ve given yourself away.

The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.

Do what you will, but never out of fear.

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

Life is worth more than man will ever know. Each of our choices open up the possibility of a different world. Every time we wake up, the universe puts itself in our hands. So many...

Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.

Ready, fire, aim.

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn’t match your life, you have pain.

I don’t really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn’t about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in…well you try a little harder. You dream a little...

I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand...

A goal will always tell you where you don’t want to be.

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me,...

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

There are choices in life which you are aware, even as you make them, cannot be undone; choices after which, once made, things will never be the same.There is that moment when you can still...

I would expect that there’s going to be a more vigorous effort to refine and clarify the choices between the Conservatives and Liberals and that’s only natural, given that the stakes go up with each...

Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.

A woman should be mindful that the key to one man’s heart does not necessarily fits into the lock of another.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Remember that the choices you make, and the reasons you make them, shape your destiny. Remember your free will…And remember, what the True One has made is supposed to bring balance and unity, not anger,...

Never make choices that will make you hurt others. If you will not help them, don’t hurt them!

I think there’s a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

The earlier you sign up for housing and orientation, the more choices you have.

Some things you sentence yourself to life for.

The health care system is moving to a privately-owned ‘Single Payer’ system where patients will have fewer choices, less leverage and higher costs. The number of the uninsured will surely increase has the insurers’ control...

Mannequins can’t dress themselves. Stones go wherever you throw them.

We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do...

Question.””Yes,” Candace asked expectantly, eyes fixed on the dark street ahead.”Have you ever had to chose sides between a friend and a boyfriend?”Candace nodded.”Which side are you suppose to pick?””The right one.””What if they’re both...

Up and down, up and down, a ladder of choices leading to the next choice, and the next, until suddenly you’ve run out of choices, and ladder, and you find time as rare and thin...

I told you from the very beginning that it was a story about choices – wise choices, foolish choices, small yet momentous choices – for with choices come change, and with change comes opportunity ,...

There is no doubt that these are real people making real choices for high stakes, and we rarely get to observe such pure decisions.

Life truly becomes exactly what you make it. All the choices lead to the reality you are experiencing.

If you decide to just go with the flow, you’ll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You’ll end...

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, ‘I’ve gotresponsibilities.

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn’t fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.

Consumers are increasingly concerned about the safety of presenting their financial information online and would like payment choices. It is up to the retailers to address these concerns and look at new alternatives for making...

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the ‘duties’ of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I...