Top 100 Personal Choice Quotes
#1. Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.
Alice Hoffman
#3. Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.
John Hutton
#4. Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.
Neal Boortz
#5. Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.
Paul Kagame
#6. French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
Naomi Wolf
#7. Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.
John Christopher
#8. Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
Pope John Paul II
#9. Directive design gives an either/or choice, similar to a traffic sign. Interpretive design allows for personal choice, in the same way symbolism allows for individual meaning.
Maggie Macnab
#10. It seems I had personally laid my past to rest and when writing volume two of my book, it reminded me how I managed to get through it all back when I was young and how I made a personal choice to leave New Zealand in search of a better life.
Christian S. Simpson
#11. An authentic coaching relationship gives the client personal choice and control.
Michael J. Marx
#12. The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice.
Aletheia Luna
#13. Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.
Steve Maraboli
#14. Everybody's got regrets. It's a personal choice as to whether or not you can change.
Josh Duhamel
#15. We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose change.
John C. Maxwell
#16. Choices are our choices so I am not taking away anyone's personal choice, but we run into difficulty when we're having choices made for us rather than making our own.
Robert Moss
#17. I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.
Don Lemon
#18. Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don't really understand why they can't wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together.
Nicolas Cage
#19. A person may use his fundamental right to communicate whatever he likes, but the people like his point as per their personal choice only and not necessarily that which is always fundamentally right.
Anuj
#20. We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.
Mike Peters
#21. What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure - as an automaton of "duty"? This is the very recipe for decadence, even for idiocy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.
Frederick Lenz
#23. The basic problem is that most Western countries have privatised the next generation. Having children tends to be regarded as a personal choice rather than a social good.
Tony Abbott
#24. It wasn't that she necessarily wanted to "socialize" at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy.
J.D. Stroube
#25. For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don't matter as much as
personal choice.
Ann Aguirre
#26. Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.
Mike Royko
#27. Disconnecting from one's community is a personal choice, of course, but it ends up having social implications ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].
Ariana Kelly
#28. I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.
Chicken John
#29. Yet the personal choice to smoke is ... the same kind of choice as the driver who downed the beers, and then the telephone pole. - Open letter from the tobacco industry, 1988
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#30. My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice.
Ashley Purdy
#31. You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.
Sonam Kapoor
#32. A happy marriage is a personal choice. The same way you decide to GET married? It's the same way you decide to STAY happily married!
Ngina Otiende
#33. I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.
Prince William
#34. I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn't talk about real beliefs or serious thoughts, but then I also like the stuff that does. I think it just depends. It's a completely personal choice.
Maria Bamford
#35. Trust cannot, in the real world, be just a matter of personal choice.
David Amerland
#36. Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
Terry Goodkind
#37. He seemed like the type that kept people at arm's length, maybe out of arrogance or maybe from personal choice- either way, I wanted to know him so that those eyes were narrowed and focused solely on me.
R.S. Grey
#38. No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Martin Buber
#39. There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in my opinion. It's a personal choice.
Frederick Lenz
#40. We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.
Eric Cantor
#41. Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.
Carl Hiaasen
#42. Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.
Megha Khare
#44. Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.
Melissa Etheridge
#45. I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.
Ray Dalio
#46. Freedom with poverty meant more to me than money without personal choice
Kamal Al-Solaylee
#47. We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
Ilchi Lee
#48. I found the Course essential in my struggle for personal transformation. It helped me recognize that I really did have a choice of experiencing peace or conflict, and that this choice is always between accepting truth or illusion.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
#49. The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.
Michael Polanyi
#50. Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email, and I have said it would have been a better choice to have had two separate email accounts. And I've also tried to not only take responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as transparent as possible.
Hillary Clinton
#51. This path is very rarely the result of any choice, or even of personal predilection. The victims, in the vast majority of cases, were not tortured or killed because they were good any more than their executioners tormented them because they were evil. It
Jonathan Littell
#53. Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#54. Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.
Israelmore Ayivor
#55. H&M makes it easy for a guy to look great every single day and create a personal style. Their men's collection always gives me a choice of how I want to dress, whether it be sharp in a suit and polo-neck, or more relaxed in jeans and a tweed jacket.
Joel Kinnaman
#56. I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.
Sharron Angle
#57. If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
Margaret Atwood
#58. Life is exactly what you make it; it can be a heaven or hell; it's all up to you.
Steven Redhead
#59. Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.
Kevin W. Pearson
#60. One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.
Steve Goodier
#61. Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.
Bob Proctor
#62. We are always - always- in choice.
Patti Digh
#63. I choose not to serve the Conglomerate as an ambassador, but that doesn't mean I've given up on humanity. Surrender isn't a word in my personal lexicon; there are other ways and means. If nothing else, Ithiss-Tor taught me there's always a choice.
Ann Aguirre
#64. Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football
Tony Cascarino
#65. Our fragile, perishable bodies are not who we are. We are the sum of fleeting moments that belong to us for eternity. It is our choice and responsibility to create moments of beauty and grace, instead of despair and suffering.
Dorit Brauer
#66. 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
#67. Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams.
John Patrick Hickey
#68. The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias and to fight for our dreams.
Paulo Coelho
#70. Don't rush to justify yourself with a verbal argument; your choice of words may unmake what you made.
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. What you fill your days with, fills your days.
Marty Rubin
#72. Author branding is the process of positioning an author as the center of attraction and influence, to be the preferred choice in a given theme, style, category, niche or genre
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#73. The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word "conversion" means simply "turning.
Billy Graham
#74. Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.
Fennel Hudson
#75. There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. If you think of your bad behavior as a lifestyle choice, as in "being yourself" or "just being honest," you might be ignoring the cost to your personal energy.
Scott Adams
#77. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.
Francis Schaeffer
#79. Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#80. Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself generously to others.
Pope Francis
#81. I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.
Van Day Truex
#82. This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.
Kathleen Turner
#83. Your brand resides in your dominant talent. Other talents and gifts are only there to connect you to the right people for the right choice and the right places for the right actions.
Israelmore Ayivor
#84. our tomorrow is
shaped by the choices we make today, consciously or unconsciously
Derric Yuh Ndim
#85. Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
Donna Rice
#86. your experience of conflict or peace is the result of your choice of thought system and not of what seems to be happening to the personal self.
Elizabeth Cronkhite
#87. When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice
Ayn Rand
#88. The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.
Vironika Tugaleva
#89. If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.
Roger Ailes
#90. Choice is the mortar that binds together the things that make us who we are.
Fennel Hudson
#91. Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.
Sheri Fink
#92. Success-minded people make a decision to achieve a goal and never have to make that decision again. They will be faced with a choice or some new circumstances to deal with, but the decision to achieve the goal is not in question. They have only to make adjustments along the way.
John Patrick Hickey
#93. One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
Hugh Mackay
#94. We have a positive power of choice and this is tool we should use to carve greatness out of challenges.
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. For us to know that the Book of Mormon is true, we must read it and make the choice found in Moroni: pray to know if it is true. When we have done that, we can testify from personal experience to our friends that they can make that choice and know the same truth.
Henry B. Eyring
#96. Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.
Bernard Lonergan
#97. I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.
Margaret Thatcher
#98. Ask yourself - Where do I want to be one year from today? Personal growth is a choice.
Bob Proctor
#99. A "breakdown" is when you've exhausted every option and have no choice but to accept the fact that you are powerless to create the outcome you want.
A "breakthrough" has the same definition.
Paul Colaianni
#100. Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most ... women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?
Christina Hoff Sommers
