Top 100 Choice And Choose Quotes
#1. Whoever you should choose to partake in that enjoyment, that is your choice, and choose wisely.
Jenny Han
#2. Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.
Sylvia Plath
#3. Life is a choice. Choose to live and not merely survive.
Debasish Mridha
#4. I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the chains of the cage. I needed this woman. Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death.
David Foster Wallace
#5. The purpose of life - if it may be said to have purpose - is not ease. It is to choose, and to act upon the choice. In that task, we are not measured by outcomes. We are measured only by daring and effort and resolve.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#6. As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?
John Doolittle
#7. I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.
Tony Campolo
#8. You had a bet. You couldn't lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you'll choose winning every time. It's still true.
Jennifer Echols
#9. I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.
Jean Dujardin
#10. All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won't remember it, and you'll learn nothing from it, and you'll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.
Nick Hornby
#11. What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.
Helen Humphreys
#12. Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.
CLAMP
#13. He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.
Jess Walter
#15. My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.
Your choice is who you choose to be,
And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me.
Ben Harper
#16. When I am optimistic, I choose to believe that every life I lead, every choice I make, has consequence. That I am not one Harry August but many, a mind flicking from parallel life to parallel life, and that when I die, the world carries on without me, altered by my deeds, marked by my presence.
Claire North
#17. I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.
Richard DeVos
#18. Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.
Javier Bardem
#19. I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way.
Sara Ramirez
#20. Destruction is a man's will,
Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will,
Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention.
Babu Rajan
#21. It's a choice, writing is. One that belongs to you and me. We get to choose it (or not) every single day. So whether or not the world hears your message - whether you leave the impact you were born to make - is entirely up to you.
Jeff Goins
#22. Yes, it's vulnerable and scary to keep your love on toward someone who has become a perceived threat-you cannot guarantee what he or she is going to do. But you can guarantee your own choice. And you can always choose connection.
Danny Silk
#23. I carefully choose people in my life and if you are not happy with it, then its your call to be angry, broken, disappointed and lose sleep over my choice, judgement & decision ... no apologies.
Uzoma Nnadi
#24. But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account."
"Really?"
"It did for me," said Harry.
He had never told any of his children that before, and he saw the wonder in Albus's face when he said it.
J.K. Rowling
#25. You're not big on people, are you?"
"I wouldn't say that. Just ... when faced with the choice between small talk with strangers and peace and quiet, I'll choose the latter every time. You know?
Kirsten Hubbard
#26. Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.
Steve Goodier
#27. It's a free-choice afternoon and I choose you.
Jen Malone
#28. The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you ... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.
Bill Crawford
#29. Healthy people know not to gorge on anger. At the end of the day, they walk away. They choose to end it. And it's an easier choice the next time.
Steve Goodier
#30. The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.
Jim Butcher
#31. We don't get to choose what truths God reveals to us
but we do get to choose what we do with the truths
whom we share it with and how.
Carol Goodman
#32. Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.
Deepak Chopra
#33. A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.
William Powell
#34. Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence - by his own choice.
Ayn Rand
#35. And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.
Melinda M. Snodgrass
#36. We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#37. The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#38. Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
Ralph Nader
#39. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. But you always have a choice. You can choose to find comfort and solace in God. You can choose to be brave and compassionate. And you can choose to find beauty and happiness wherever they present themselves.
Kiersten White
#41. It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.
Erin Gruwell
#42. Misunderstandings are a normal part of life, and the outcomes of these depend upon how we choose to react to them.
C. JoyBell C.
#43. Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you invite, the first you seat, the first you serve food and wine, the one who calls the orchestra's tunes, the one who is offered her choice of dance partners throughout the night.
Doug Dorst
#44. Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives ... Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.
Robert McKee
#45. By eliminating choice there is in turn an elimination of growth. You must have a choice and in experiencing both the light and the dark you are given a wonderful opportunity to choose.
Timothy Moran
#46. The difference between the called and chosen is the chosen choose what God called them to, no matter where the choice takes them.
Hope D. Blackwell
#47. Happiness is a choice ... you cannot choose what happens, but you can choose your reaction to it and be Happy.-RVM
R.v.m.
#49. I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
Bayazid Bastami
#50. Freedom to choose has what might be called expressive value. Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about.
Barry Schwartz
#51. It's a difficult truth to face that some people choose to define themselves by the pain they feel or the wrongs they've suffered. They're not going through hard times so much as making all times hard.
Dani Harper
#52. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
Heraclitus
#53. Materialists thereby deny the reality of mind (while they use their minds to advance materialism), determinists deny the reality of human choice (while they choose determinism), and relativists deny the fact of right and wrong (while they judge you if you disagree).
Nancy Pearcey
#54. You had to draw lines, and that choice was in itself dangerous; all boundaries had a double edge, were like swords that could always be turned against you in the end.
But you still had to choose.
Melissa Scott
#55. Every day we have a choice - either to spread love and peace or to spread hate and war! And each one of us must choose love and peace each time and every time!
Avijeet Das
#56. I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.
Beth Revis
#57. The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: 'If I am responsible for my suffering, then it is simple, I can drop it. It is my choice. I will not choose it any more.'
Rajneesh
#58. Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#59. Jewish tradition holds that, given a choice between life and death, one should always choose life.
Miriam M. Brysk
#60. CHOOSE WISELY'
Birth wasn't your choice,
and neither shall death be.
But the way you live your life
is your choice, buddy.
Maddy Malhotra
#61. Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it you choose either a life of abundant strength and energy, or you're living in the gap, far beneath the quality of life you could be enjoying.
Shawn Phillips
#62. I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.
Karen Joy Fowler
#63. Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.
Friedrich Kellner
#64. With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.
Diane Wolkstein
#65. Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most.
M. Scott Peck
#66. There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.
T.F. Hodge
#67. Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
Ben Vereen
#68. This is not a choice. I either choose not to become a Hunter and get killed in some hideous manner or I choose to become a Hunter and get killed in some hideous manner.
Sarah Alderson
#69. David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.
Mario Cuomo
#70. People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.
Eric Sevareid
#71. The challenge in all intimate relationships is to preserve both the "I" and the "we" without losing either when the going gets tough. If we're faced with a choice, we need to choose speech over silence, keep our behavior in line with our stated values and beliefs - and save ourselves first.
Harriet Lerner
#72. Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.
John Frankenheimer
#73. Everything we encounter in life is an opportunity to choose God and in turn become more like Him in the process. Quick contentment fixes are corner cutters; when we cut the corner and cut the process, we miss what God wants to do.
Joshua Stannard
#74. So you have to weigh that consequence against the other consequence and make a choice. I know if it were me, I'd choose to go on the tennis trip. But never say you have to do anything.
Stephen R. Covey
#75. And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference ...
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#76. There is always a choice, Mister Walker. Even if it is not necessarily the one we wish to have. You can choose to forget all you have seen or you can act to protect your home and all you hold dear. Both choices are open to you. The decision belongs to no one else but you.
F.A.R.
#77. Given the choice between eating this cupcake or watching Ryan Gosling and Jon Hamm wrestle each other for the privilege of having sex with me, I'd choose the cupcake.
Lisa Kleypas
#78. If you want to know what a truly healthy relationship is, it's one where both people wake up every morning and say, I choose to be with this person.
Robert Morrow
#79. Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.
Mira Grant
#80. So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break
Billy Joel
#81. But if, once we return to the real world of human choice, we choose to be kind and generous, that is real love.
Gary Chapman
#82. You are not a victim in this world unless you choose to be. And if that's your choice, then you'll never be more than a frightened girl lost in the woods." He
M.A. Larson
#83. Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes.
Terry Tempest Williams
#85. She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take.
Christine E. Schulze
#86. A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)
George R R Martin
#87. We all choose our way of life, and that makes us who we are. We're not a reflection of our choice, we're a choice.
Sarvesh Jain
#88. We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there ... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy ... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.
Henri Nouwen
#89. Bad thoughts zap your energy. Happy thoughts make you strong and free. It's a choice you make each day, so choose to be happy - that's the way!
Wayne W. Dyer
#90. No, you do not have to live; it is your basic act of choice; but if you choose to live, you must live as a man - by the work and the judgment of your mind.
Ayn Rand
#91. Maybe none of us can choose who we love, Cas. None of the lucky ones, anyway. The only choice we have is how we serve that love. And Ethan's made his choice. What about you? Are you going to reject it, or make the best of what you've been given?
Vicki Keire
#92. You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path thats clear. I will choose Freewill.
Neil Peart
#93. Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.
Brent Weeks
#94. Change itself is not a choice, but you can choose to be willing to change and you can choose to will the changes that you want.
Willing Change
Jane Collins
#95. She could tell the difference between fantasy and reality. If life ever gave her another opportunity to make the choice, she knew which one she would choose.
Ruthie Knox
#96. Life cannot impose on you that which you aren't willing to accept. Don't let your emotions/feelings push you towards accepting less than what you truly deserve. Believe in yourself, be confident and stay focused. The best lies before and within you...it's all matter of your choice. Choose wisely!
Kemi Sogunle
#97. Decide to dream big dreams and make them happen. Never let procrastination and excuses squeeze your dreams to become small. Do it early and do it big!
Israelmore Ayivor
#98. The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.
Timothy Ferriss
#99. Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me - they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are pogroms.
Rand Paul
#100. The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
Mortimer J. Adler
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