Top 100 By Choice Quotes
#1. There is an inner working of intelligence behind the movement of energy in the world. This natural or organic intelligence is conscious and sure in its plan and method, not by choice or intention but intuitively and spontaneously, as a movement of pure beauty and harmony.
David Frawley
#2. Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance, that will determine your life. An Unstoppable Life begins by taking responsibility for your choices.
Thomas Narofsky
#3. We live by choice, not by chance.
Hal Urban
#4. You slept with Tori Spelling?...Nobody sleeps with Tori Spelling-not by choice anyway.
Mary Jo Eustace
#5. Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.
Annie Dillard
#6. By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
George W. Bush
#7. As William James observed, we must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default. We are at risk, without quite fully realizing it, of living lives that are less our own than we imagine.
Tim Wu
#8. The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
Ernest Hemingway,
#9. What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.
Jaggi Vasudev
#10. There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#11. A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies.
M.F. Moonzajer
#12. Function is a fantasy ... the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
David Pye
#13. We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you're not doing something about it, you're doing something about it.
Chris Guillebeau
#14. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.
Diana Gabaldon
#15. Some families happen at birth, some are created by choice. But the best are forged in love.
Louise Behiel
#16. I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
Truman Capote
#17. But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
Rachel Cohn
#18. All mothers breed dead children.
They shall, perhaps, live later.
When no longer dead, they are born
Not - by coincidence, by choice.
Mie Hansson
#19. 'No one lives in Ameeron by choice.'A veritable City of the Damned.'As the poet might remark, aye.' Rackhir offered Elric a sardonic wink. 'But I sometimes think all cities are that.'
Michael Moorcock
#20. I'm minding my own business, sir! How many people do you think actually do that by choice? Does it bother you? Of course it bothers you. A clear conscience is always supposed to bother a cripple-minded idiot like you
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. People today ... it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.
Brandon Sanderson
#23. People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried ...
Jilly Cooper
#24. You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.
Russel Honore
#25. Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
Mark Gorman
#26. Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!
Robert Southey
#27. For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.
Lauren Oliver
#28. Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.
Graham Moore
#29. I dwelt there by choice in privacy and peace.
Alan Bradley
#30. I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.
Sarah Paulson
#31. She might scream when the nightmares found her, but not by choice, not when she was awake.
Melissa Marr
#32. The seer does not see, by choice, what the blind can see by default ... from within.
T.F. Hodge
#33. Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It's a state you create by choice. It's a decision. It's an act of will.
Robin Sharma
#34. I never trust a man who tucks in his shirt by choice or neglects coffee in favor of tea.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#35. A long time ago. I came to the understanding that all men are friends by convenience and enemies by choice.
John Christopher
#37. I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.
Alice McDermott
#38. The great thing about family, Mary mused, was that they showed up. When it really mattered, your family, be they blood or by choice, were always where you needed them to be, even though they had busy lives and jobs and children of their own.
J.R. Ward
#39. Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.
Mignon McLaughlin
#40. Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice.
Xavier Rosseel
#41. By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.
Richard W. Fisher
#42. Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.
Habib Umar Bin Hafiz
#43. Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning ... and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.
Donald Hall
#44. Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.
Samuel Johnson
#45. Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.
Jacques Pepin
#46. I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
Nawal El Saadawi
#47. I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
Robert Frost
#48. I am who I am by choice. Society rejects me because I'm different; I reject society because they're all the same.
Travis Barker
#49. By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.
Errol Flynn
#50. All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance.
Neale Donald Walsch
#51. I'm single by choice. Not my choice.
Orny Adams
#52. Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation ... or your death.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. By chance we met, by choice we become friend
Millie Huang
#54. When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.
Michael N. Castle
#55. He, too, had been glassed-in for a long time, by choice. Now and then he had lifted a hammer to shatter through to something, but he had never struck the blow because he didn't know what he wanted on the other side of the glass.
Dean Koontz
#56. Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#57. It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
Henri Nouwen
#58. The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I took it all as gospel. Now, after I've lived a little, I read the same works again and think, 'Has this author ever really had sex?
Fiona Pitt-Kethley
#59. 'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.
Alex Honnold
#60. A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. The people in my life are friends I have by choice. I've made a conscious effort to have them in life. I only have the time and energy for so many people, which has cut down my friend group to a handful, but I'm so much happier with fewer good people, who really do know me.
Gillian Zinser
#62. Everything you do is by choice. It may not seem so, but it is ...
Louise Hay
#63. Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival through work, the integration of motherhood and the world of work is a source of ambivalence, struggle, and conflict for the great majority of women.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#64. Never forget that it is by choice that the ordinary person decides to live a life that is extraordinary.
Cheryl Koevoet
#65. We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
John F. Kennedy
#66. Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
Bill Crawford
#68. You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in the woods by choice
that is my happiness. Here, where I am all alone, it can hurt no one that I am as I am; but when I go among others, I have to use all my will power to be as I should.
Knut Hamsun
#69. By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities.
Marian Deegan
#70. Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.
Robyn Davidson
#71. My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.
Michael Douglas
#72. The outcome of one's life is determined by choice to obey kingdom laws
Sunday Adelaja
#73. IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.
Nadia Sahari
#74. A family by choice, not chance. A choice to love, and to be loved in return. A choice to take care of and enjoy one another, not to put up with or to suffer through one another.
T.M. Frazier
#75. It is only by choice that our true nature is revealed.
J.D. Netto
#76. My art is representational by choice ... if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#78. Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.
Stella Oladiran
#79. You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind.
You shout the word - mind, mind, mind - over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and breathe, a slave by choice.
Toni Morrison
#80. Fate determines a man's beginning. The man, by choice, determines his end.
Ogwo David Emenike
#81. Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.
Robin S. Sharma
#82. You can't help those who simply will not be helped. One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald Reagan
#83. I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.
Bruce Lee
#84. People don't cheat by chance, they cheat by choice.
Tony Gaskins
#85. No one falls in love by choice, it is by chance. No one stays in love by chance, it is by work. And no one falls out of love by chance, it is by choice.
Unknown
#86. To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.
Melissa Leo
#87. The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given
Sunday Adelaja
#88. I could take you out in a second," she threatens.
If he's concerned, he doesn't show it. "I know."
Somehow he also knows that she won't do it - that the first time was just a reflex. If she were to hurt him a second time, though, it would be a conscious act. It would be by choice.
Neal Shusterman
#89. We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.
Epictetus
#91. The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.
Jerry Yang
#92. Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search.
Matt Cutts
#93. Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.
Taylor Swift
#94. For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
Zig Ziglar
#95. Love is just a chemical, no matter the origin. We give it meaning by choice.
Eleanor Lamb
#96. I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists.
Duff Cooper
#97. I'm an outsider by choice, she said, but I'm hoping that won't be my choice forever.
Brian Andreas
#98. I'm here by choice, I reminded myself. I'm here because I can't bear to be not- here anymore. I'm here because I can't tell right from wrong, light from dark. I'm here because I can't stand being me. I'm here because I don't want anyone to know where I am.
Cate Tiernan
#100. It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.
Meghan Daum
