Top 100 We Have Choices Quotes
#1. Sometimes we fall in love and end up losing ourselves. We allow ourselves to become different people. But we have choices, Lily. We can choose to find the person we used to be, the person we really are. Or we can continue on as this new being."
-Conall.
Chani Lynn Feener
#2. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.
Richard Stallman
#3. It's what makes us different from every other creature in the world - we have time. And we have choices
Douglas Coupland
#4. Choices, the greatest power we have, Choices, the path which is destiny, Choices, the result which is you ...
Joshua Fernandez
#5. We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant.
Dennis Littky
#6. Under the idea that we can all make our own fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don't. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us.
Elizabeth Scott
#7. As long as we have choices in life and use our heads, there is always the possibility of turning around the worst situation.
Terry Goodkind
#8. 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
#9. I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
BeBe Winans
#10. Circumstances shape who we are and who we become. I believe that. But I also believe we have choices. There are always choices.
Lisa Schroeder
#11. Well, then, happy news! Hakuna matata and all that," Ian said cheerily. "We'll rest and have a fine dining moment while we wait." He looked around at the various airport fast-food choices. "Well, er, we'll rest...
Peter Lerangis
#12. 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
#13. 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
#16. We have to face those consequences head-on, for better or worse. We don't get to erase them just by saying we didn't mean to. Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices. I'm starting to think that when we don't own them, we don't own ourselves. Mark
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#17. We all have choices. It's whether or not we want to face the consequences of our choices.
Courtney Lane
#18. 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
#19. If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#20. We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
Arthur Golden
#21. We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
William Glasser
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what.
M.J. Ryan
#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. 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. Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.
Daniel H. Pink
#29. Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.
Gina Greenlee
#30. We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.
Alysia Reiner
#31. 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
#32. I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in some terrible times. I'll get to wear a uniform.
Ben Kingsley
#33. 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
#34. If you have become entangled in sin from poor choices, please decide to come back now. You know how to begin. Do it now. We love you. We need you. God will help you.
Richard G. Scott
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
Stephen Ambrose
#38. They believe that life is filled with a bunch of choices and we just have to pick good, better, or best. We can settle for good, or we can wait around hoping for the best and end up single until we're fifty.
Marilyn Grey
#39. We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#40. 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
#41. I prefer to believe we have some hand in our fates, that our choices matter as much as our stars.
Jessica Spotswood
#42. You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.'
'Are you saying I have no choice?'
'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.
Anthony Horowitz
#43. I always
thought we only had two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust - thin and crispy, or
thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin
and doughy? Holy of holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#44. 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
#45. We should learn to smile as we fall,
So much so as when we have it all.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#46. We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa's sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#48. We are all what our pasts have made us," Catarina said. "The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been.
Cassandra Clare
#49. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.
Jim Rohn
#50. For the most part, most people most often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have ...
Peter McWilliams
#51. 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
#52. Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.
Monica Johnson
#53. She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
Veronica Roth
#54. We have two choices: One is to continue to see a poor, ill, crying Africa, carrying guns, that depends on other people forever, or to promote an Africa which is confident, peaceful, independent, but cognizant of its huge problems and great values at the same time.
Zeresenay Alemseged
#55. What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.
Sheena Iyengar
#56. Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
Norman Vincent Peale
#57. In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most
for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.
Bruce C. Hafen
#58. I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all ...
Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
#59. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#60. But one day, you will be faced with a choice, as we all are. One day you will have to choose between your own desires, your own darkest impulses, and what you know to be right . . . and it will harden you. You will understand that all of us are devils in the skins of men.
Samantha Shannon
#61. 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
#62. We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.
Gary Zukav
#63. In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#65. And Grimma said, "We have two choices. We can run, or we hide." And they said, "Which shall we do?" She said, "We shall Fight.
Terry Pratchett
#66. Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have a choice?
Bernard Cornwell
#67. 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
#68. What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.
David F. Wells
#69. Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over.
Andy Kindler
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough
Karen White
#73. We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.
Stephen L. Carter
#74. 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
#75. Each human being has significant potential for light and darkness," Grandpa continued. "Over a lifetime, we get a lot of practice leaning toward one or the other. Having made different choices, a renowned hero could have been a wretched villain.
Brandon Mull
#76. We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.
Fred Rogers
#77. Our vibration depends upon what we are thinking, feeling and acting. You have two choices, one is to flow with the chaotic frequencies of the world and feel hopeless, or decide what and how you want to feel.
Hina Hashmi
#78. It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom
Of having children after having had them,
So there is nothing we can do about it
But warn the children they perhaps should have none.
Robert Frost
#79. We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#80. We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
Tom Ridge
#81. Everything that happens in our lives is "good information" about the degree to which our choices are working for us. We can, however, choose to believe that we are a victim of the world we see, and have no choices. And, of course, we will receive "good information" about this belief as well.
Bill Crawford
#82. All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.
Isaac Asimov
#83. 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
#84. Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.
It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.
Chelsey Philpot
#85. In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#86. Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne Dyer
#88. 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
#89. Because we are a globally connected village, we need
to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have
a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#90. Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived.
Carolyn Wall
#91. Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
Neil Gaiman
#92. One of the major problems leading to the breakdown of society is that we have far too many opinions dictating life choices and not enough truth mandating them.
Tony Evans
#93. You talk to me of choices?' said Reinhardt. 'I only know that the choices life makes you take strip away the person we wanted to be. Builds us up into something we never wanted. Until you look back on life, and you see that the track of your life is a scar that hides what might have been.
Luke McCallin
#94. Without pain, it feels almost like I don't have a body at all, almost like I'm a ghost, sitting in a chair, blinded and eternal.
Like I'm dead already.
Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
"We are the choices we make, Todd," the Mayor says. "Nothing more, nothing less.
Patrick Ness
#95. We all have inherent biases. All of us. The problem occurs when police officers or community members allow those biases to affect the choices they make as they do their job or have interactions with others.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#96. Destiny is not a matter of fate, it is a matter of choice, and we have some choices to be made here.
Mario Gonzalez
#97. The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#98. The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.
Mary McCarthy
#99. It wins every time we accept that we have only bad choices available to us: austerity or extraction, poisoning or poverty.
Naomi Klein
#100. We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
I do, Augustus.
I do.
John Green
