Top 100 Better Choices Quotes
#1. He said, Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference.
Donald Miller
#2. We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.
Ted Cruz
#3. I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.
Lea Michele
#4. If you have the choice, it's far better to say, "That person has the job, and they really don't need that much of my oversight." Maybe they don't need any of it.
Jamie Dimon
#5. There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.
Richard Thaler
#6. We've figured out our roles: I wanted someone to take care of the male roles - the big stuff - and Laird [Hamilton] does that very well. I'm here to be the mom and make it better for him, and that's my choice.
Gabrielle Reece
#7. Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you.
Yoshitaka Amano
#8. I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.
Deborah Meyler
#9. Don't make light of one of your better qualities. You love your people like a mother is supposed to love her children. You want what's best for them, even if that makes you uncomfortable, even if you don't like their choices.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#10. In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
Robert Caro
#11. Curses are our conscious choices, so is grace," said Rama. Every error is an invitation to see our reality better, to realise where our consciousness is and where it can be. When we refuse to reach out to the potential of our consciousness, a curse befalls us.
Tomichan Matheikal
#12. Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.
Chuck Palahniuk
#13. We have to face those consequences head-on, for better or worse. We don't get to erase them just by saying we didn't mean to. Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices. I'm starting to think that when we don't own them, we don't own ourselves. Mark
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#14. I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.
Karen Salmansohn
#15. We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
William Glasser
#16. Like a lot of people, I've always enjoyed commenting on strangers' outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people's hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better.
Demetri Martin
#17. I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don't deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20's.
Todd English
#18. We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
Tom Hanks
#19. We've been gifted with the power of choice ... in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.
Shawn Anderson
#20. Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.
Tom Giaquinto
#21. It's always better just to do work that you're really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that's it and who knows after that. I think that's what I love in acting.
Emily Blunt
#22. There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you." -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3)
Krissi Dallas
#23. Each second is a second you can make a new choice, a better choice, a healthy choice, a present choice.
Mariel Hemingway
#24. Is that not the whole point of gaining experience, to use it to make wiser choices, to temper destructive instincts, to find better resolutions?
R.A. Salvatore
#25. Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis.
Henry Kravis
#26. most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose differently, so that the prediction is proven wrong, all the better. What's the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything?
Yuval Noah Harari
#27. They believe that life is filled with a bunch of choices and we just have to pick good, better, or best. We can settle for good, or we can wait around hoping for the best and end up single until we're fifty.
Marilyn Grey
#28. It's up to you to make the conscious choices that bring about a better future. Find new methods to deal with old routines. You have to take charge of your life, to be accountable to yourself and responsible toward others.
Lynn C. Tolson
#29. Quality is a choice. Choose to make it better.
Ron Kaufman
#30. When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
Donald Miller
#31. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.
Jim Rohn
#33. I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.
Mia Hamm
#34. Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.
Michael J. Fox
#35. Simplifying your life is meant to make things better, not worse. It's about choices - about saying no to the things in your life that aren't the best so that you are free and available to say yes to those things you truly want.
Tsh Oxenreider
#36. Before Under Armour, the only choices you had were to wear a short-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the summer or a long-sleeved cotton T-shirt in the winter. Why not make a better piece of equipment for underneath the shoulder pads?
Kevin Plank
#37. If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#38. I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
Thomas Jefferson
#39. You either live the life that is easy or you live the life that is difficult, but appreciate it more.
Shannon L. Alder
#40. I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated.
Sheena Iyengar
#41. Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you - either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
Sydney J. Harris
#42. What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.
Michelle Obama
#43. There were so many things we left unsaid. Depending on how you look at it, whether you think it was worth saying it out loud, or better kept inside.
Diyar Harraz
#44. I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.
Scott Ashjian
#45. I've found that a combination of therapy and medication, along with lifestyle choices like eating better and exercising regularly, helps me cope well with my anxiety.
John Corey Whaley
#46. My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.
Michael Pollan
#47. Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.
George Clooney
#48. She deserves so much better than what I can give her. I don't, however, think she deserves better than me. I think she would be perfect for me and I would be perfect for her, but all the bad choices I've made in my life are what she doesn't deserve to be a part of.
Colleen Hoover
#49. There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.
Justine Bateman
#50. Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.
Shonda Rhimes
#51. When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Along the way, I've tried not to make the same mistake twice, to learn, to adapt, and to pray for the wisdom to make better choices in the future.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#53. Except that night didn't change my life. I changed it. I have to stop acting like I have no control over these things. Like I'm letting them just happen to me. These are my choices. For better or worse.
Hannah Harrington
#54. If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen
Stewart Stafford
#55. There's no finish line. That's a big pill for people to swallow, Every single day for the rest of your life, you are going to have to make better food choices, and move around a bit more.
Bob Harper
#56. You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.
Bryant McGill
#57. Talk to people about what our real choices are ... Our way works better ... Stick with us, keep talking and think how much better it will be if we keep going forward together.
William J. Clinton
#58. Life is a matter of choice. Everything we manifest in our day to day lives is the direct result of our choices along the way. Each choice automatically creates a consequence. From our choices other people's lives are influenced for better or worse.
Dannion Brinkley
#59. When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.
Kamal Ravikant
#60. I believe that life always has a way of surprising you, for better or for worse," he looks at me once more, his eyes holding mine captive in its strong hold. "And that you always have a choice as to how the story ends...
Mara Joaquin
#61. There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
John Le Carre
#62. Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.
Marcus Buckingham
#63. The answer to finding better work/life balance is to find the right blend between all our life activities - regardless of where and when they occur.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#64. Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
Dennis E. Adonis
#65. The power to change is already within you, ready to be discovered. Find new methods to deal with old routines. It is up to you to make the conscious choices that bring a better future.
Lynn C. Tolson
#66. I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.
Brian May
#67. One's fate, obviously, will either be for the better or for the worse, depending on the choices made by the spiritual will.
David R. Hawkins
#68. A small profit it better than a big loss
Ron Rash
#69. One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#70. Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.
Francis Quarles
#71. When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.
Billy Corgan
#72. If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!
John Lennon
#73. You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person.
Brent Smith
#74. I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
Russell Simmons
#75. There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.
Nikki Rowe
#76. When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.
John Cena
#77. If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.
Mike Huckabee
#78. If you give voters a choice between a Democrat who promises to do nothing and a Republican who promises to do nothing, they're generally going to side with the Republican, because they're better at that than we are.
Martin O'Malley
#79. It is better work without being paid to fulfill a divine purpose than to be rich without any fulfillment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices. And make friends and love well, bring art to this place. And make this world better for the whole human race.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#81. You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!
Bill Henson
#82. Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.
Neal Shusterman
#83. Competition is good for consumers for the simple reason that it compels producers to offer better deals - lower prices, better quality, new products, and more choice.
John Vickers
#84. I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#85. Life happens because of choices we make, if you want a better outcome; think before you create.
Nikki Rowe
#86. As parents we make choices. We make the hard choices that we never want to. We give things up when it's the hardest thing in the world. We allow our kids to hate us if it means they'll have a better life. We sacrifice every single day.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#87. The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#88. For some reason, we as a culture have adopted blame as a method we use to feel better about the choices we make, rather than taking responsibility for them.
Catherine Garrett
#89. Just because you can make a choice, doesn't mean you should. Some things are better left alone.
Laura Burks
#90. The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY
Robin Sharma
#91. But we can't impose our own goals, wishes, or help on anyone. We can only teach, support, and love. We give them more opportunities, more choices. Then we love them regardless of the choices they make, hoping that they will learn to make better ones in the future.
Stacey Bess
#92. A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.
Joy Behar
#93. No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.
Bill Maher
#94. Why was I still traveling? Was it purely because it was better than turning around and going home, where I would have to make grown-up choices about my future? Or was I waiting to happen across a place that would tell me to stay?
Pete Spurrier
#95. After all, tomorrow will be prettier than today. It all depends on your choices and actions, and if you are ready to make it.
Debasish Mridha
#96. The reality is you must realize that this was a choice made by the impostor. We all have choices, and there is always a better solution than to steal. They have chosen to sacrifice you for their own needs.
Linda Foley
#97. Don't be surprised by smart people doing bad choices! Dumb spirits seek to reborn with a better brain.
Robin Sacredfire
#99. In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been meditating for maybe 20 years. I meditate so I can make choices; so I'm not a sheep all the time. So I can see better than what everyone else is doing.
Russell Simmons
#100. Think. Learn. Act. The more you know, the better and more educated choices you have the opportunity to make.
Mehgan Heaney-Grier
