Top 100 Our Choices Quotes
#1. Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
Anne Frank
#2. Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
Naomi Wolf
#3. Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.
Dallin H. Oaks
#4. We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.
Blake Crouch
#5. No one else "makes" us do anything. They can't make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#6. The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.
Sheri Fink
#7. God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#8. What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
Richard M. Nixon
#9. Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
Nadya Suleman
#10. I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that I should try to do "the right thing" because it's our choices that make us who we are. I figure that's pretty decent advice. But I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.
Jeff Kinney
#11. Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
John Stossel
#12. Because it's our choices that makes us who we are ...
Jeff Kinney
#14. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling
#16. If we abdicate responsibility for our choices, we may become angry, sometimes full of rage at others for running our lives, for telling us what to do. We need to take responsibility. We need to trust ourselves.
Melody Beattie
#17. Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want the specific direction we have chosen to be the correct one, if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so.
Miya Yamanouchi
#19. We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception.
Bryant McGill
#20. Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.
Richard Paul Evans
#21. The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.
Ann Rinaldi
#22. The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely.
Gregg Braden
#23. One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because ... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.
Brene Brown
#24. All of us have the privilege and responsibility of choosing our attitudes, no matter what circumstances or situations we find ourselves in. The key word here is choosing. Attitudes don't just happen; they are the products of our choices.
Joyce Meyer
#25. This all means that we are not rational (in the traditional sense), not fully informed, we are influenced by others, and our choices are not purely conscious.
Thomas Zoega Ramsoy
#26. We are all products of our upbringings, Primale. The constructions that result from our choices are laid upon the foundation set by our parents and their parents before them. We are but the next level in the house or paver in the path.
J.R. Ward
#27. Some decisions are hard, some are easy, but either way it's our choices that matter. Who we chose to align with. What we choose to give in to. What we choose to resist. And most of all, who we choose to be. Because it is always our choice.
Daisy Whitney
#28. Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
Solomon Burke
#29. We're defined totally by our choices, even the ones we don't realize the significance of at the time.
Morgan Matson
#30. It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.
J.K. Rowling
#31. The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#32. Our modern culture's idea of freedom is wholly negative. We are free as long as no one is constraining our choices. However, this concept is too thin to be adequate.
Timothy J. Keller
#33. Sometimes the decision to limit our choices makes space for creativity to flourish and allows new ideas to emerge.
W. Nicholas Knisely
#34. So I guess what I am trying to say is life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season
or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. Our choices. Our fleeting moments together.
Emily Giffin
#35. Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.
Shannon L. Alder
#36. I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#37. The species or nature with which we make our choices is fallen, sinful, selfish, and stupid; and we cannot by our own power attain the deepest and final end of our desires, union with God, eternal happiness. Thus,
Peter Kreeft
#38. It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
Alexandra Bracken
#39. What we are worshipping we are becoming. Every moment of every day our choices enact our loves, our desires, and our aspirations. And we are molding ourselves into the God or gods we thereby worship.
Terryl L. Givens
#40. We are not dissatisfied with our choices and with what life has
given us, but when we meet we both have a curious and not unpleasant
impression that a veil, a breath, a throw of the dice deflected us
onto two divergent paths, which were not ours.
Primo Levi
#42. Your destiny has not been decided by others, but by you. Fate determines our choices; but our choices determine fate. You will carry it out because you choose to.
J.R.C. Salter
#43. Oh, that God would have made His will ours! Giving us free will was not free; there were costs to consider and balance. The reward for our choices, for our belief in ourselves and our desire to do the right thing, were great. But along the way we had to take risks. We had to try.
Nancy Moser
#44. Our choices are determined by our nature; we choose what we desire and we desire what is most consistent with our nature.
Michael S. Horton
#45. I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman ... I believe in God-given free will, you see. I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. I think our choices are our own.
Susan Cooper
#46. I like to think we all end up in the place we're supposed to be eventually. The sum total of our choices carries us to our destiny.
K.L. Kreig
#47. Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.
Zia Haider Rahman
#49. Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
Alix Kates Shulman
#50. Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
Ayn Rand
#51. Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#52. We must realize that the real impact and consequence of each of our choices and actions - and even our thoughts - is monumental, because every single thought, choice, and action is determining who we are becoming, which will ultimately determine the quality of our lives.
Hal Elrod
#53. Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.
Don Coppersmith
#54. In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.
Donna Rice
#55. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then do we find peace in our choices.
Brandon Mull
#56. Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices.
Vahid Asghari
#57. Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.
Dallin H. Oaks
#58. We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We're shaped by our choices.
Sarah Dalton
#59. 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
#60. There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices ... But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?
Libba Bray
#61. Neurologists tell us a startling truth that has major implications for spiritual formation: Our choices and experience shape our brain, both literally and physiologically. What we choose cognitively helps make us into who we are.
Gary L. Thomas
#62. If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?
Allison Winn Scotch
#63. It's not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it's our choices.
Josephine Angelini
#64. The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.
Paul McCartney
#65. Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
Louise Penny
#66. When the sands of time come falling down, we are only left with our choices. Choose wisely; however, some may argue wisdom is relative.
Virginia Vayna
#67. We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#68. We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness.
Bruce H. Lipton
#69. Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.
George H. W. Bush
#70. It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices. -
J.K. Rowling
#71. Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.
Dannion Brinkley
#72. When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.
Jeff Bezos
#73. Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
Maggie Q
#74. We become our decisions over time. We choose to love, or we can choose to hate. We can choose to forgive, or we can choose to take revenge; to have hope, or we can choose to fall into despair. But, regardless, we become our choices we make over time. p. 318
David LeRoy
#75. Nature is our salvation, not technology or the intellect. Technology can neither save us nor destroy us. Technology can only aid the will, thus it is the will and our choices which determine everything.
Bryant McGill
#76. all the existentialists concur that it is through our choices that we become who we are.
Gordon Marino
#77. I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.
Adrienne Rich
#78. Every day, each of us makes a multitude of choices that will impact our lives ... the quality of our choices will dictate whether we will struggle in frustration or live an extraordinary life
the life of our dreams.
Debbie Ford
#79. I want you to remember that - it's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises." Etta
Alexandra Bracken
#80. How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late.
Lysa TerKeurst
#81. Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect.
Tom Rath
#83. Our choices lie between the lesser of two evils, but it is still within our power to make these choices
Scott Peck
#84. While the choices we make matter, it's what we make of our choices that matters the most.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#85. At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.
Sunday Adelaja
#86. When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.
John Chaffee
#87. The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.
Nelson Mandela
#88. Self-motivation becomes easier when we see our choices as affirmations of our deeper values and goals.
Charles Duhigg
#89. Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?
Edge
#90. Life is like authoring a novel, our choices write the chapters that decide our path, destiny, and if you're blessed, a happy ending.
Brandie Knight
#91. Some say that our lives are defined by the sum of our choices. But it isn't really our choices that distinguish who we are. It's our commitment to them.
Emily Thorne
#92. Who would talk about the evolutionary mind? Who cares about the good and evil in the evolution of species, and so on? This must be interesting only to the degree to which it informs us in this very present moment regarding our choices that we will make in the creation of our future.
Ralph Abraham
#93. My choices that terrible morning had been prompted by love. What others had chosen had been prompted by hate. The effects of our choices had spilled onto each other. They always did.
Susan Meissner
#94. When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.
Cheri Huber
#96. Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said.
"Well, Choices are supposed to be limited. That's life" I snapped
Lauren Oliver
#97. Difficult questions, simple answers. What is a community?
It is the sum total of our choices.
Fredrik Backman
#98. [she] believes our experiences and our worlds make us. I believe our choices make our experiences and our worlds.
Josephine Angelini
#99. If our stubborn minds would absorb that we are accepted by God because of Jesus Christ, our choices and subsequent behaviors would be profoundly affected.
Beth Moore
#100. Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
Neale Donald Walsch
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