Quotes About Tough Choices

#1. Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going.

Bill Maher

#2. Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Michael F. Easley

#3. Life is full of tough choices, indeed.

Christian Andersen

#4. When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.

Jarod Kintz

#5. I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

Rick Scott

#6. Those who avoid the tough choices of life, live a life they never chose.

Robert Breault

#7. Every governor's got tough choices to make.

Bob McDonnell

#8. Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

Chris Christie

#9. Economic success without accountability and social inclusion is not sustainable, and new governments often must face tough choices in order to protect the poor and vulnerable.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#10. The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

Barack Obama

#11. Because growing up means making tough choices, and doing the right thing doesn't necessarily mean doing the thing that feels good.

Katie McGarry

#12. Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Alan Autry

#13. When a company sets out to participate, rather than win, it will inevitably fail to make the tough choices and the significant investments that would make winning even a remote possibility.

A.G. Lafley

#14. Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

Lindsey Graham

#15. The really tough choices ... don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values.

Rushworth Kidder

#16. The end result is that there can be no more truth or goodness and no need or even ability to make tough choices. Where the purpose of higher education once was to enable the student to find truth, the modern university teaches that there is no truth, only 'lifestyle.

Allan Bloom

#17. Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Joe Biden

#18. Life is full of tough choices between less-than-perfect alternatives.

Maryanne O'Hara

#19. Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death.

Loretta Chase

#20. The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.

Alexandra Stoddard

#21. There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I've chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.

Kim Harrison

#22. It was a tough choice [of PM]. I voted for a Scotsman.

Michael Gove

#23. I've auditioned for animation stuff for a long time; that's a tough field to crack into. I don't think I have the strongest voice. I don't have a theater-trained voice or a radio voice, but I think I make good character choices.

Brian Huskey

#24. Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices

Kiran Bedi

#25. You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

Anne Roiphe

#26. But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from.

Susan Ee

#27. The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer.

Jeff Cooper

#28. Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.

Tim Brown

#29. To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.

Alec Baldwin

#30. I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

Vanilla Ice

#31. To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.

Robert Breault

#32. A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, 'Mass Effect 2' was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices.

Rob Manuel