Top 100 Quotes About Choices We Make
#1. We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter. (p. 22)
Rabih Alameddine
#2. Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising.
Chloe Thurlow
#3. We must make the choices that enable us
to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton
#4. Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
Charles De Lint
#5. Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.
Joyce Meyer
#6. So we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.
A.W. Tozer
#7. We've figured out our roles: I wanted someone to take care of the male roles - the big stuff - and Laird [Hamilton] does that very well. I'm here to be the mom and make it better for him, and that's my choice.
Gabrielle Reece
#8. He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.
Michael Lee West
#9. Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they're not. They're habits.
Charles Duhigg
#10. I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn't make certain choices for ourselves.
Roxane Gay
#11. You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.
Jonathan Tucker
#12. The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.
August Busch III
#13. Every choice we make affects the other. It always has ... We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone - You have never been alone.
Olivia Fuller
#14. If we don't make any choices for ourselves, then we are slaves to those that do.
Stacy Ulibarri
#15. Life isn't always about how easy we can make it, but about the choices we make to ease the life.
Stephanie Nash
#16. The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.
Terry Tempest Williams
#17. Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.
Per Petterson
#18. Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.
Joan Lunden
#19. We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?
Tom Hanks
#20. Success is not an accident, it's a result of the choices we make based on things we believe in..
Jeremy Marcus Coatesoates
#21. We are condemned to be free people, liberated people who must make life-defining decisions. Freedom requires choices and all choices entail value decisions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#22. We are made by the choices we make. We are defined, not by how or where we were born but what we make out of the "where" and "how"; not much of how we started but more of how we decide to end.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#23. Some choices we make for people around and some decisions we take for thyself!
Rachana Shakyawar
#24. I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.
Howard Schultz
#25. All choices have consequences,' she said []. 'That doesn't mean we're not free to make them. It's one of the perplexities of the human condition
Ingrid Black
#26. The decision to move forward with our lives or stay where we're lays in the choices we make.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#27. Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no control, rather we define ourselves by the choices we make, moment by moment, situation by situation. All it takes is an act of will to be the best that we can be.
Laurence Overmire
#28. As a Goodwill Ambassador for YouthAIDS, I've learned that the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female. By educating young people and empowering them to make the right choices we can stop the spread of HIV/AIDS
Ashley Judd
#29. There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It's impossible.
Michael Bennet
#30. We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person
John Gerstner
#31. They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat.
Michael Moss
#32. And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices
and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after, I find offensive.
Gillian Flynn
#33. In case you're short on definitions, here's one. Insanity: 'Destroying the very things that sustain us.' And if we're so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it's not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. We don't punish people because they are evil, but because they make bad choices, choices that are bad for the herd. Morality isn't heaven-sent or eternal, just a set of rules that benefit the herd.
Jo Nesbo
#35. The future depends on what choices we make....
I. Alan Appt
#36. The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.
Kurt Bills
#37. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.
Auberon Herbert
#38. No matter what they say, we aren't free if we can't make our own choices.
Grace Fiorre
#39. It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
Antony Beevor
#41. There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.
Fred Rogers
#42. The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit
Marianne Williamson
#43. The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.
Herbert A. Simon
#44. Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
Stephen Ambrose
#45. While understanding that we need this matrix to experience life on earth, we should also be able to enjoy a certain sense of detachment from it, and thus feel more empowered to make our own choices. We should thus come out feeling much more in control of our own personal journeys.
Julia Woodman
#46. Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#47. An adult can take a principle and adapt it to his needs. But we're not ready for that yet. We're children. And when you're teaching a child, you require him to do what is right until he grows old enough to make his own choices.
Brandon Sanderson
#48. And we can't make the choices the gospel requires if we are worried about staying out of conflicts or keeping the peace with the very people who pay our salaries. Something
David C. Olsen
#49. I think when we make choices - for
each choice is individual of the choices we have made before - we must examine not
only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.
Cassandra Clare
#50. Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
Victoria Osteen
#52. What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.
Jeanette Winterson
#53. We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.
Woody Allen
#54. If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.
Daphne Oz
#55. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.
Jim Rohn
#56. We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
Bernard Baruch
#57. I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?
Chris Ware
#58. That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Others don't make us angry. There is no force involved. Becoming angry is a conscious choice, a decision, therefore, we can make the choice not to become angry. We choose!
Lynn G. Robbins
#60. Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted ... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.
Curtis Jackson
#61. The worst decisions in life we make are always the one we make out of fear.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. When we think good thoughts, we feel good. When we feel good, we make good choices. When we feel good and make good choices, we draw more good experiences into our lives. It really is that simple ... and elegant ... and true.
Cheryl Richardson
#63. There are lies in life we accept. Whether it's for the sake of ignorance, bliss, or, in my case, survival, we all make our choices.
Katie McGarry
#64. Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
Laura Marling
#65. Who am I?
What do I believe?
Never lose sight of what I believe in. Never, no matter what happens.
What one person does affects all of us.
We're all bound together. We're all threads in a single garment of destiny.
I make my destiny myself.
By the choices I make.
Moira Young
#66. Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.
Tulku Thondup
#67. At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.
John Rawls
#68. She regards me quietly and then she quotes something Mistress Coyle once said to me. "We are the choices we make." It takes me a second to realize she's just said goodbye.
Patrick Ness
#69. Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.
Kamal Ravikant
#70. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.
Billy Graham
#71. Giving and taking are based on our motives and values, and they're choices that we make regardless of whether our personalities trend agreeable or disagreeable.
Adam M. Grant
#72. I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
Louise Erdrich
#73. I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.
Robin McGraw
#74. We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.
Marina Abramovic
#75. Life chucks a bunch of stuff at us, stuff we have no control over, but we can decide how to handle it all. We shape our lives with the choices we make.
Cathy Cassidy
#76. I won't argue. It's different for everyone, isn't it? Love, magick, and how we see and deal. And in each, the choices we make.
Nora Roberts
#77. You can't change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn't make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don't get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.
Gail Caldwell
#78. To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.
Michael Bennet
#79. We wonder what true happiness would be like. Not realizing that one simple thought connected to our hearts can make the difference between us wondering and experiencing it.
Monica Dumont
#80. I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.
John F. Kerry
#81. We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.
David Gemmell
#82. We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.
Danielle De Niese
#83. The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.
George J. Mitchell
#84. All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There's no escaping the inevitable.
John Cusack
#85. It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.
Rick Warren
#86. I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband, and my physical health. That's hard for women to own; we're not taught to do that.
Michelle Obama
#87. The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity.
Marilyn Manson
#88. Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
Charles Stanley
#89. What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.
Michelle Obama
#90. We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.
Bob Proctor
#91. I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
John Perkins
#92. We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.
Stephen Covey
#93. We have choice," she insisted. "This is it. We don't get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we're given ...
Dianna Hardy
#94. We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.
Darren Hardy
#95. If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause
Jim Rohn
#96. The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.
Slade Combs
#97. Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.
Lysa TerKeurst
#98. One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#99. You couldn't control or changed anything that's happened. We just do the best we can at any given time, make the bedt choices possible, and learn to live with the rest
Kirsten Beyer
#100. Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within.
Beau Sides
