Choices Quotes

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate"¦I choose love.

We are our choices.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Choices determine character.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Everything has a price.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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 up doing what everyone else is doing.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

Choose only one master - Nature.

Not to decide is to decide.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

Yes, there are two paths you can go byBut in the long runThere's still time to change the road you're on.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.

The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.

A small profit it better than a big loss

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

There aren't any answers, only choices

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it.

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 and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you.

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

We make our own choices, and then we present the matter to the Lord and get his approving, ratifying seal.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization,

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.