Quotations about Choices
Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
~Richard Bach
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
~Richard Bach
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
There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.
~Joseph Bonaparte
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.
~William Jennings Bryan
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~Leo Buscaglia
Life is a sum of all your choices.
~Albert Camus
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
~Abbie M. Dale
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
~John Dewey
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
~George Eliot
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
~William A Foster
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
The key to your universe is that you can choose.
~Carl Frederick
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.
~Robert Fritz
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
~Kahlil Gibran
The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.
~Sabrina Ward Harrison
Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.
~Bob Kall
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
~J. Martin Kohe
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.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
~Salvador De Madriaga
The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defense of our people, our future, and our freedom.
~Nelson Mandela
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
~H. Mathews
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
~Jean Nidetch
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 own responsibility.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.
~Frank Swinnerton
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 up to us.
~A. J. Toynbee
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
~Harry S. Truman
Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
~author unknown
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
~author unknown
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
~author unknown
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
~author unknown
No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
~author unknown
Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
~author unknown
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
~author unknown
There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
~Denis Waitley
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
~John Wayne
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~Oscar Wilde