Top 100 The Choice Quotes
#1. The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.
Andrew Weil
#2. Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora that she wouldn't debase herself like that. Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what could you do, supposing? Go to the Colonies, Rita said. They have the choice. With the Unwomen, and starve to death and Lord knows what all? said Cora. Catch you. They
Margaret Atwood
#5. Everyone has the ability to hurt ...
It is the choice that matters
Priyanka Kedia
#6. The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know how to fly, you need to know how to walk.
Michael Lesy
#7. For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing. (paraphrased)
Abraham Hicks
#8. The Choice of a purpose is more important than success.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#9. I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition ... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
#10. Man can certainly keep on lying ... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel ... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.
Karl Barth
#11. Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.
Samuel Johnson
#13. Which would be better, what sticks or what falls through? Or does the choice itself create the value?
Seamus Heaney
#14. If you don't choose what you want, someone make the choice for you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself.
Kcat Yarza
#16. You don't live because of me. You live because you let me love you. You made the choice to breathe all on your own ... I just helped you find the strength to inhale.
Lisa De Jong
#17. At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.
Jennifer Beals
#18. The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant.
James Baldwin
#19. I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.
John Green
#20. I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#21. The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
Steve Maraboli
#22. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Edward Gibbon
#23. The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.
Israel Shenker
#24. Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.
Peter Norvig
#25. If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn't worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy.
Kristen Crockett
#26. Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.
Stephen Chbosky
#27. Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Ben Ames Williams
#28. The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
Timothy Geithner
#29. But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.
Jonah Goldberg
#30. Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit ... or not.
Wayne Dyer
#31. If only the choice of whom you fall for were that easy. None of us choose who we love, Jask. If it were about reason and logic and choice, it would be science, not emotion. It would stop being magic.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#32. One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
Simone Weil
#33. I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?
James K. Morrow
#34. Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
Kara Goucher
#35. Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.
Lang Leav
#36. Sometimes doing what's right for your conscience is not always the most popular decision, but I can guarantee that in retrospect you won't regret the choice you made.
Tyler Oakley
#37. Ultimately, it isn't your knowledge that makes the choice: it is your values and your will to be faithful to your values.
Ilchi Lee
#38. Society is the choice between freedom on someone else's terms and slavery on yours.
Charlie Jane Anders
#39. When the men were choosing the most attractive women, they didn't know that the choice was not theirs, really,
David Eagleman
#40. The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice. It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you.
Richard Wyckoff
#42. We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)
Karen Armstrong
#43. As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.
Mara Liasson
#44. Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.
Lisa Cholodenko
#45. You can be impatient and get fewer results or you can be patient and enjoy more than you desired. The choice is totally yours.
Dhaval Gajera
#46. Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
Keanu Reeves
#47. At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
John Ortberg
#48. Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.
Lucas Papademos
#49. Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.
Ayn Rand
#50. Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.
Friedrich Kellner
#51. You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I will have enjoyed myself.
Victor Hugo
#53. Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.
Tony Dungy
#54. 'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
Faye Wattleton
#55. I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a character, or any character, if I put my all into it. That's the choice you have to make.
Henry Cavill
#56. Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
Yevgeny Baratynsky
#57. When given the choice, people will always spend their time around people they like.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#58. MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:
WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.
R.J. Palacio
#60. I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.
Clive Owen
#61. But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.
John Steinbeck
#62. Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.
Brian Tracy
#63. At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.
Rick Ross
#64. He who wills to reject nothing, wills the destruction of will; for will is not only the choice of something, but the rejection of almost everything.
G.K. Chesterton
#65. Any joy that grows here is quickly choked by weeds. I am not some monster who destroys out of a twisted pleasure. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing.
Patrick Rothfuss
#66. On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#67. What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need - what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. Stay mindful of your choices!
John C. Maxwell
#68. The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened.
Jacob Aagaard
#69. As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.
M.J. Rose
#70. 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
#71. I think everybody should have the choice [with drugs] the same as helmets. You should be able to say whether you want to wear one or not. By making drugs illegal, the government is intervening into our lives a little too much.
Sonny Barger
#72. Given the choice between fulfilling love and a washing machine, young people in the U.S. and the Soviet Union both chose the washing machine.
Kristin Ross
#73. We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.
Edsger Dijkstra
#74. In any situation you have the choice to stay positive and embrace it with courage, faith, and hope.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. we say lets choose but really the choice is already made all you have to do is find it
Chelsea
#77. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing. - Lanre
Patrick Rothfuss
#78. The choice is very obvious if you have to choose between the devil and the angel! If the choice is not obvious in your mind, then you have some badnesses inside you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
Sylvia Plath
#80. By making the choice to leave, you're insulting the place that raised you, and made you, and never turned you away. And that place fights you back.
Trevor Noah
#81. My general sensibility is most certainly comedic. But when I signed with my manager, he said, 'I think you could do dramatic stuff as well.' So, rather than making the choice to do it, I sort of agreed and deferred. By no means does it feel close to home, but I was willing to explore it.
Benjamin Koldyke
#82. Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free.
Bryant McGill
#83. Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life.
Andy Biersack
#84. Given the choice between eating this cupcake or watching Ryan Gosling and Jon Hamm wrestle each other for the privilege of having sex with me, I'd choose the cupcake.
Lisa Kleypas
#85. God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
Algernon Sidney
#86. When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
Alexander Pope
#87. In a world where the larger majority of society is careless, it's the small percentage of people who make the choice to be different and prioritize relationships that stand out.
Farshad Asl
#88. The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.
Richard V. Allen
#89. In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.
George Whyte-Melville
#90. Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
W. Edwards Deming
#91. The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea.
I always chose the sea.
Katherine McIntyre
#92. Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
#93. The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.
Billy Graham
#94. We are the choice elected few
Let all the rest be damned
There is room enough in hell for you
We won't have heaven crammed!
Roland H. Bainton
#95. If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
Olafur Eliasson
#96. Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
Niklaus Wirth
#97. While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
Andrew Motion
#98. Every single day you make a choice, to be happy and enjoy the ride ... or to be sad worrying about your life. the choice is yours.
Ardianto Sony
#99. Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.
Susan Meissner
#100. I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.
Jerry Orbach
