If You Have To Choose Quotes

#1. If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.

Parashar Pandya

#2. If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.

Haruki Murakami

#3. A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.

Andrew Klavan

#4. In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will constantly pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person; choose your self-respect & ego.

Because other person may leave you at their will but your self-respect & ego will always support and carry you even in toughest situations.

Nikita Dudani

#6. If you have to choose between any two, first choose time to think.

Mohith Agadi

#7. If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.

Sparky Anderson

#8. If you have to choose between two theories, prefer the one that doesn't center on you.

Paul Graham

#9. The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. If you have to choose between 'travelling in an ugly road to a beautiful place' and 'travelling in a beautiful road to an ugly place,' choose the second!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.

Carver Mead

#12. If you have to choose between the two hopeless situations, choose the one which gives you at least an opportunity to fight!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former ...

Barry Unsworth

#14. If you have to choose between terrible grief and terrible guilt, I think grief is easier, in the end.

Sharon Bolton

#15. The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.

Kimberly Giles

#16. Life is about choices, and you have the ability to choose. You always have had this ability. I suggest that not only do you have the ability, you have the responsibility to make choices for yourself. It is your life, and you are in the driver's seat, if you choose to be.

Lou Tice

#17. Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.

Walker Evans

#18. Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Louisa May Alcott

#19. If life didn't end... there would be no need for me to choose love in the face of death is the ultimate act of courage. I am the joy, but you are the meaning. Together, we make humanity more than it otherwise might have been.

Martha Brockenbrough

#20. I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

John F. Kerry

#21. If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family.

Donna K. Childree

#22. Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?

Janny Wurts

#23. Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.

Andrew Tan

#24. Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. No. No way. I don't love Aren. I can't because, damn it, I'm not one of those girls, the ones who have two men chasing after them but can't make up their minds who to choose. If you can't decide who you love more, you don't love either of them enough.

Sandy Williams

#26. You don't get to choose if get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have a say in who hurts you.

John Green

#27. What can you mean? It may be of no moment to you; you have sisters and don't care for a cousin; but I had nobody; and now three relations, - or two, if you don't choose to be counted, - are born into my world full-grown. I say again, I am glad!

Charlotte Bronte

#28. Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

Taraji P. Henson

#29. If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

David Levithan

#30. 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

#31. What is your idea of you? Who is it that you have decided to become? If your greatest work of art is the life you live, and ultimately life is a creative act, what life will you choose to leave behind as your masterpiece?

Erwin Raphael McManus

#32. There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.

John Sayles

#33. Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.

Trevor Horn

#34. If you have a tendency to find yourself in MacGyveresque situations, go ahead and choose a synthetic rope to craft with. I don't want you cursing my name as you hang from a cliff by your swiftly fraying Monkey's Fist necklace.

Maura Madden

#35. If you truly care about animal rights and have a passion for it, take some action. Whether it's hands-on or political, just go for it. No matter what path you choose in life or what you decide to do, you can use your voice to educate other people and help the cause.

Mac Danzig

#36. If people ask me, 'For you, what is your most important film?' I have a feeling that they all sort of want me to answer with one of the Bergman films. But I cannot choose.

Max Von Sydow

#37. If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

Rick Yancey

#38. It is an awful knowledge. Even if what you are coming up out of is a nightmare, waking is hard. When you were deep inside the dream, all was decided for you. Out in the morning is something else altogether. Something you have to choose for yourself.

Anna Smaill

#39. Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

Neale Donald Walsch

#40. The thing that's bad about breasts is that you have to choose between having a mind and having breasts. It'd be nice if you could have both.

Susan Sarandon

#41. Just so you know,If I have to be shackled to someone, I'd choose you everytime.

Josh Lanyon

#42. Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.

Steve Maraboli

#43. If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.

Ron Wyden

#44. Bread and water will not break me, and if you choose to isolate me, I shall have only but more time to plot against my oppressors.

J.V. Hart

#45. The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

Bethenny Frankel

#46. If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

Saul Griffith

#47. If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren't, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

Padgett Powell

#48. You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You have the whole world to choose from. If you have something to say, say it. Live your life as you want to live it, not how others perceive your life to be lived. Take control. Today.

Michelle Geaney

#49. Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.

Bernice L. McFadden

#50. Now I'll give you a choice. That train is going to be run. You have no choice about that. But you can choose whether it's going to be run by one of your men or not. If you choose not to let them, the train will still run, if I have to drive the engine myself.

Ayn Rand

#51. Ana. I want you to know I'd choose you. If it were up to anyone, if what I wanted counted for anything, I'd have chosen you.

Jodi Meadows

#52. If you truly must obey your mistress. If you truly must have revenge, then you can start with me. But if you choose to follow your own path, well you can start that with me too if you like.

Steve Hockensmith

#53. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world ... but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

John Green

#54. Neither were we allowed to choose what we ate. I have a friend whose seven-year-old will only consider something if it's white. Had I tried that, my parents would have said, "You're on," and served me a bowl of paste, followed by joint compound, and, maybe if I was good, some semen.

David Sedaris

#55. If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life. This is something I learned from the playwright Steven Tomlinson.

Austin Kleon

#56. If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

Muriel Spark

#57. And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertains without enlightening can still be a guilty pleasure, but a book that enlightens without entertaining is algebra.

Pete Dexter

#58. But if the choice I have to make comes down to you or me, I choose you.
I always have.
All my love,
Patch

Becca Fitzpatrick

#59. If you choose to engage in one night stands, make sure you have a good reason and peer pressure is NOT one.

Shahla Khan

#60. If fear appears at your door you have two options, either you choose to let it in or you choose to grab onto the Lord and the promise of His presence no matter what.

Yilda B. Rivera

#61. What I love most about New York is that I can walk in the street and nobody is looking at me as if I'm different. In my country and in Italy, you have to choose sides. I was a famous journalist and I was also an immigrant and ultimately I never stopped feeling like I was a guest.

Rula Jebreal

#62. If you choose to do the right thing, it's a conscious decision at first. Then it becomes second nature. You don't have to think about what is right because doing the right thing becomes who you are, like a reflex. Your actions with time become your character

J.L. Witterick

#63. If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.

Marvin Minsky

#64. Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

Jim Carrey

#65. If you choose to lead your life just like everyone else, then what exactly is it that you have to offer?

Wayne Dyer

#66. Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?

June Jordan

#67. It's like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can't choose where they're going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don't like it.

Pope Francis

#68. If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Gina Barreca

#69. Don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I

John Green

#70. If you don't choose my life," he said, "you will marry in the spring."
"That's a trap."
"No, it's a bet. A bet that you like your independence too much not to fight alongside me."
"I hope you see the irony in what you have just said.

Marie Rutkoski

#71. advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you? But if you demand advice, I will for friendship's sake give it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#72. But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

Claire Danes

#73. Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Tony Benn

#74. You are not asking me. I am asking you. Our lives are in God's hands now. Perhaps he has plans, a mission for us to fulfill. Instead of a soldier of Rome, you might now be a messenger of God. But if not, then I still choose to be your wife, for whatever time he allows us to have.

Janette Oke

#75.
he stopped and eyed Bill Corso
if you choose to just sit here like a bored jungle gorilla, you will have to write out this quote as many times as you can during the next hour.

A.S. King

#76. Don't push me." She stopped and glared at me over her shoulder. "You're my friend, Shannon. I care about you, but if I have to choose, I choose Cole. So back the fuck off before I slap the fucking stupidity out of you.

Samantha Young

#77. If you have a chance of working for a healthy company or a sick one, choose the sick one. The sickest ones need the best doctors and it's a lot easier to stand out in a company that needs help.

Greg Brenneman

#78. If you get yourself out of politics, religion, everything, and think as a human, think based on love to everybody, at that moment you have a choice: to be an animal, or to be a human. I choose to be a human being, with conscience and responsibility.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#79. The way to an ordinary marriage is the path of least resistance. If you want an extraordinary marriage, you will have to choose it.

Justin Davis

#80. If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes.

Carlton Cuse

#81. My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

Andy Warhol

#82. You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose between the three or four companies that you have insight into. And you have to make a bet on them before they prove anything out.

Peter Diamandis

#83. If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.

Edmund Hillary

#84. If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

Tim Robbins

#85. 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.

#86. It's fine to be able to stand on your own, admirable, but I think you also need to prove to yourself that it's okay if you don't have to. That it's okay to choose to not be alone. To choose to let someone support you, emotionally and otherwise.

T.L. Haddix

#87. 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

#88. I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him

Leonard Nimoy

#89. If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?

Gregory David Roberts

#90. What if I just want to die?"
"Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.

Megan Bostic

#91. People think that once you're in movies your life changes in a crazy way. It really doesn't. If you choose to have it change in a crazy way, it will. I have my same groups of friends I was friends with in high school. We're all a bunch of really normal guys.

Jonah

#92. You do not have to be afraid. Let God guide your life. The guidance that God gives you can lead you to a safe life," said Aurora. "Humans make decisions that are contrary to God's will. If only you would choose to seek Him, He will help you find His way through your tribulation.

Summer Lee

#93. I guess you always regret the choices you didn't make, because you imagine that they would have been better choices, that's the thing. But in the end, you just have to choose something and get on with it. Because if you hedge your bets forever, well, you end up with nothing, don't you?

Nick Alexander

#94. You don't have to justify your path to anyone. If people says to you "Why would you start this business?" Your response "because this is what I choose." No further explanation necessary.

Timi Nadela

#95. There is no way to your personal joy if you hand over the keys to someone who is not ready to open the door for you. You have the right to choose your friends; do it carefully!

Israelmore Ayivor

#96. If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.

Dean Koontz

#97. Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

Michael Caine

#98. You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

Albert Ellis

#99. 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

#100. If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.

Sarah Dessen