Top 100 Make Choices Quotes
#1. Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices
Kiran Bedi
#2. 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
#3. When you're faced with a significantly life-altering negative situation you can't control, you grasp at the little things you can control. The little opportunities where you can make choices for yourself.
Josh Sundquist
#4. I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.
Roxane Gay
#5. It's probably the most unpopular policy I'm responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don't like.
David Cameron
#6. If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a thouroughfare for all thoughts, and among them you must make choices.
Robertson Davies
#9. Throughout my life, I've learned to make choices that make me happy and make sense for me. Even my husband is happier when I'm happy.
Michelle Obama
#10. At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.
Mike McCready
#11. If we make choices using Earth as the central standard, welfare as a common goal, and conscience as the absolute scale, even apparently complex changes may happen more quickly than we imagine.
Ilchi Lee
#12. If our spirit is submitted to the Holy Spirit, we will make choices according to the Father's will and stay on His highway.
Bonnie Jones
#13. Sophie Bach from The Maker:
You're a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?
And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological process - nothing more?
Wes Moore
#14. Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.
Anita Elberse
#15. The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
A.J. Ayer
#16. A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.
Ariel Gore
#17. Rules do not determine outcomes - the players still have to make choices - but they make some outcomes more likely than others, by defining what it means to "win", and by creating incentives for and imposing constraints on the players.
Frances McCall Rosenbluth
#18. Just because you have chemistry with someone doesn't mean you're naturally going to be the best for each other. You have make choices and prioritize.
Missy Peregrym
#19. Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.
Lance Henriksen
#20. You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Lisa See
#21. We have to make sure that when we make choices as a society, people understand the choices, agree with them, and are behind them. Otherwise, the system is going to fall apart.
Juan Enriquez
#22. A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.
Chaim Potok
#23. We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.
Justin Trudeau
#24. I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.
Christina Baker Kline
#25. People will tell you that the world is divided into good and bad, and that I'm bad, but it's not, and I'm not. The real truth is that I make choices based on my circumstances. We all do. It trumps everything else, whether you know it or not. There has never been a good or bad.
Zia Marie
#26. You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.
Frank Gehry
#27. I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
Aleksandar Hemon
#28. A leader's purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience.
Farshad Asl
#29. We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.
Kevin B. Rollins
#30. I want to see life through a spiritual perspective, so I can make choices that influence eternity.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#31. Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.
Robert Gottlieb
#32. I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.
Juliette Binoche
#33. We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
Penelope Lively
#34. Karma will lead you to a larger more expansive happier view or a dinger darker view. That view will enable you to make choices and have experiences.
Frederick Lenz
#35. The greatest thing that gives me peace about time is knowing that I get to make choices about what I do with it. I also find it amazing that when there is something I really want to do, I find the time for it.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#36. When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.
David Simon
#37. Make choices that bring love and joy to your body. It's not about perfection; it's about love and gratitude for an amazing body that works hard and deserves your respect.
Alysia Reiner
#38. All souls make choices throughout their lives, some are good and some are evil - their fate with the universe has no bearing on those choices. Their choices permit them to be whole or to remain fragmented
Nancy Straight
#39. Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Stephen Covey
#40. Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.
Ori Hofmekler
#41. Reason and emotion are not separate and opposed. Reason is nestled upon emotion and dependent upon it. Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuations. The human mind can be pragmatic because deep down it is romantic.
David Brooks
#42. A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
Mary Tyler Moore
#43. Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.
Marie Kondo
#44. But first, become aware of the choices that you are making in every moment. The more you become aware of your choices, the more you will make choices that are spontaneously correct - both for you and for those around you.
Deepak Chopra
#45. Actors make choices for different reasons.
Stacy Keach
#46. To keep Stacia from making decisions on her own, especially ones I do not agree with, I will have to make choices with more speed.
Joelle Charbonneau
#47. I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.
Selma Blair
#48. Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.
Richard Bach
#49. Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn.
Koichiro Matsuura
#50. When we make decisions that honor our dreams and priorities, we also make choices about what we won't prioritize. We must embrace these choices as well.
Sarah Hackley
#51. To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.
Iyanla Vanzant
#52. If you want change and don't make choices that reflect the change, you are making a choice to keep things the same.
Steve Maraboli
#53. I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
Dan Gilroy
#54. You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
Wayne Dyer
#55. Giving yourself over to the fine line of a human-like droid means that sometimes you make choices that don't make you feel good, as an actor, and you have to learn to embrace that. No actor will tell you that that's a good place to be.
Michael Ealy
#56. No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.
Nancy Pearcey
#57. I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
Ken Burns
#58. To a certain extent, you can make choices, but so can everyone else around you. It's where those choices collide that things happen.
Kaira Rouda
#59. If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.
Cheng Yi
#60. If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.
Sarah J. Maas
#62. I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.
Lois Lowry
#63. I don't play bad guys. I play people who make choices that are different from other people's.
Robert Deniro
#64. My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.
Leila Aboulela
#65. People do not take actions based on logic. We make choices based on emotion. Every one of us. Then we use what we call logic to justify our choices.
Kameron Hurley
#66. We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.
Neil Gaiman
#67. Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.
Lena Dunham
#69. When people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.
Jodi Picoult
#70. Since we have to make choices in life, why not choose the good ones?
Kcat Yarza
#71. A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
Deepak Chopra
#72. If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.
Gretchen Rubin
#73. If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ dwell within you, and having placed all your faith and trust in Him, spread this hope around you. Make choices that demonstrate your faith.
Pope Benedict XVI
#74. It is very easy for us to make choices in life but the most difficult part is to follow those choices through ".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#75. Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive.
Seth Godin
#76. She'd neglected to make choices for her inner self as well. She'd given away too much.
Mary Alice Monroe
#77. We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.
Kelli O'Hara
#78. It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: 'Am I doing it right?'
Stanley Donen
#79. Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.
Tad Williams
#80. - I can't make choices like that without knowing who I am. Without knowing all the implications.
- You can't ever know in advance. Big decisions require faith.
Doug Dorst
#81. I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.
Kelli O'Hara
#82. It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.
Geena Davis
#83. I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.
Cary Fukunaga
#84. To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.
Bill Jensen
#85. I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
Warren Farrell
#86. You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.
Henry B. Eyring
#87. Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.
Steven Redhead
#88. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
Mike Leigh
#89. You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.
Michelle Obama
#90. Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#91. I spent years tryin' to shield her from her choices, didn't work. I'm not gonna let you do it and I'm not gonna teach you that someone's gonna shield you from shit. You gotta learn too. You make choices, they're yours and you gotta take responsibility for them.
Kristen Ashley
#92. But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.
Allen Lacy
#94. I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
Marc Guggenheim
#95. We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.
Anthony Horowitz
#96. We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we ... bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.
Kristin Hannah
#97. The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.
Jonathan Haidt
#98. I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
Lauren Bacall
#99. Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those fortunes and misfortunes work to make us what we become.
Michael Josephson
#100. Every moment of our lives we make choices. Most we don't even know we're making, they're so dull or routine or automatic. Some are beyond explanation - like my mom choosing Wyatt's memory over Dad and me.
Laura Anderson Kurk
