Top 100 You Must Choose Quotes
#1. Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.
Frederick Lenz
#2. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
Steven Wright
#3. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Herman Melville
#4. You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.
Gary Zukav
#5. If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.
Nora Ephron
#6. Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.
CLAMP
#7. Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#8. You must choose to risk what you fear to lose to gain everything you desire
Catrice M. Jackson
#9. Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?'
Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.'
'How can I escape my fate?'
'You must choose your destiny.
Jeanette Winterson
#10. Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.
Martha Beck
#11. In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
Roy H. Williams
#12. 273. In order to hold on firmly to your faith, you must choose the Road of Hope followed by the disciples of Christ and not the road to death offered by the world. 274. Many people today repeatedly assert, "I
Van Thuan, Francis Xavier Nguyen
#13. You choose to shine with the light of your own divinity, or you hide it with the shadows you create in your mind. You must choose where to live -in the light or the shadows. The most powerful tool you have is your power of choice.
Nirmalananda
#14. If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.
Philip K. Dick
#15. Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Eric Mangini
#16. If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.
Pan Ku
#17. To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues,
Gary Keller
#18. You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them.
Ralph Marston
#19. It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.
Jean Sibelius
#20. You have always been a child between, a witch apart. But there is no path forward that does not have him in it. Whichever way you go, you must choose him.
Deborah Harkness
#22. This is our work in creation: to decide. And what we decide is woven into the thread of time and being forever. Choose wisely, then, but you must choose." Great
Stephen R. Lawhead
#23. I can only show you the doors, you must choose one to walk through and discover what you find on the other side.
Peter Koevari
#24. If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.
John Piper
#25. In dreams and in making, you choose what you are. But you do not choose only once. Over and over, at every turning you must choose. This felt like a turning, a time to choose what she was.
Katherine Catmull
#26. [Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.
Samuel Beckett
#27. The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie Schwartz.
#28. You must choose the life you live at the time you live it.
Claire North
#29. You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.
Stephen Kendrick
#30. Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
Joe Henderson
#31. You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
Adyashanti
#32. Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities.
Stedman Graham
#33. Before you can act you must choose. Before you can choose you must know. Before you can know you must feel. And before you can feel you must be trained.
David Amerland
#34. You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.
Israel Horovitz
#35. My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.
Alexandra Stoddard
#36. If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the hunter.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#37. Man's life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is your goal, you must choose your actions and values by the standard of that which is proper to man - for the purpose of preserving, fulfilling and enjoying the irreplaceable value which is your life.
Ayn Rand
#38. When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.
Paulo Coelho
#40. Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.
Carlos Castaneda
#41. You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
Vincent Van Gogh
#42. This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan ... Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#43. You don't 'find' love, mi amor. You choose it. And then to keep love, you must choose it again, day after day.
Patricia Engel
#44. There will always be something scary in the world. You must choose whether or not to let it frighten you.
The Venger Breegan,
Quest for Evil: The Magic of the Key by Jenna Lindsey
Jenna Lindsey
#45. Not all choices in life are ones you would like, but those are all that are presented to you. Sometimes you must choose what is better for the ones you love than yourself.
Terry Goodkind
#46. These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.
Jane Austen
#47. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
Leo Szilard
#48. I can pick a liar from a lineup of thieves and slanderers: the best of the best. I was hoping you would not resist the information we need but I must ask you now to answer my question truthfully and to choose your next words wisely. What does the key open?
Celia Mcmahon
#49. If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships - and you must talk about that openly, candidly.
Bill Jensen
#50. Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.
Ilona Andrews
#51. Do not rush into a business just because you have the capital. You'd lose your shirt if you jump into it recklessly. Do your homework first. Study the market and look for that golden opportunity. Whatever business you choose to go into, it must be something that you can pursue with passion.
Andrew Tan
#52. People must not choose their neighbors; they must take the neighbors that God sends them. The neighbor is just the person who is next to you at the moment, the person with whom any business has brought you into contact.
George MacDonald
#53. In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.
Alan Keyes
#54. To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you
Luke Wood
#55. Principle 1: By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. Principle 2: By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy.
Leo Babauta
#56. If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess ... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.
Jeff Cooper
#57. Do not antagonize your son! He is of an age to choose for himself. Because his choice is not your choice, do not assume that you must be right. If it is a misfortune - then accept misfortune. Be at hand to aid him when he needs aid. But do not turn him against you.
Agatha Christie
#58. Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
Caroline Myss
#59. You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.
Scott Howard Phillips
#60. You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you cannot even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap.
Ambrose Bierce
#61. The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.
Theresa Sjoquist
#62. To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.
Jose Mourinho
#63. Freedom is never the ally of law. You can have freedom to choose whether you want to join or leave a society based on the rule of law. But as long as you live in such a society you must obey the law.
Amish Tripathi
#64. You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.
Jaclyn Smith
#65. It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.
Hal Elrod
#66. Why must you choose the only dignified person in this crew as the butt of your mockery?"
"Because, my dear man," Ham said, imitating Breeze's accent, "you are, by far, the best butt we have.
Brandon Sanderson
#67. To create more happiness and success in your life, you must change your policy about the nature of life and officially choose to see it as a classroom not a test.
Kimberly Giles
#68. The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.
Jerry Lewis
#69. If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully
as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
Edward Abbey
#70. Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.
Joyce Carol Oates
#71. When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams
#72. In order to be good, you must recognize the difference between right and wrong and strive to choose the right. To be truly evil you must do the contrary. Being good or evil is a choice.
Brandon Mull
#73. You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
Robert Hunter
#74. To be a superstar, you must do something exceptional. Not just survive the Dip, but use the Dip as an opportunity to create something so extraordinary that people can't help but talk about it, recommend it, and, yes, choose it.
Seth Godin
#75. Choose to be who you are ... The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#76. I leave you, to go the road we all must go. The road I would choose, if only I could, is the other.
Murasaki Shikibu
#77. I don't care about your family," he said sharply. "Whatever you choose must be for you and you alone. You waste my time. This is no riddle to debate and stew. Just choose," He bellowed, causing me to jump.
[...]
"Refuge," I whispered.
The growling stopped.
M.J. Haag
#78. You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
James Lane Allen
#79. Sister Katherine smiled. 'Such arrogance. You did not choose God, Maria. He chose you. For you, as his servant, there is no such thing as choice. You must do what is right. You may do no other.
Jack Higgins
#80. To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
#81. If you truly must obey your mistress. If you truly must have revenge, then you can start with me. But if you choose to follow your own path, well you can start that with me too if you like.
Steve Hockensmith
#82. Facing different options, you must always choose the one that makes you most uncomfortable, the one that creates a tingling feeling of excitement inside your body.
John Duover
#83. Know this, child. You must always choose life. Even when the burden of heartache seems too heavy a load you must seek the forward path.
Ellen Malphrus
#84. All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there.
Pegi Young
#85. In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will constantly pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you invite, the first you seat, the first you serve food and wine, the one who calls the orchestra's tunes, the one who is offered her choice of dance partners throughout the night.
Doug Dorst
#87. Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#88. Claritypoint: You are the one responsible for your self-esteem. You are the one who must choose to value yourself accurately.-
Kimberly Giles
#89. For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
Joan D. Vinge
#90. By eliminating choice there is in turn an elimination of growth. You must have a choice and in experiencing both the light and the dark you are given a wonderful opportunity to choose.
Timothy Moran
#91. To change you must want to change, you must be responsible for the change, and then take action to make the change. It is your race to run so you need to choose your road wisely.
Thomas Narofsky
#92. Remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Accountability is not for the intention but for the deed. You must continue to choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.
Thomas S. Monson
#93. We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?
J. Michael Straczynski
#94. Dancing?", ventured Portia. "I do so prefer dancing to suffering, don't you, Nerissa?"
"You speak as if one must choose one over another. For every gentleman who has turned you around a ballroom can attest, dancing and suffering can be partners in step.
Christopher Moore
#95. When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
E. M. Forster
#96. Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.
Robin Hobb
#97. Would you choose to be like me, if you had the choice?" "I do choose it. You regret what you are only because you think you must keep others away from you. It will not keep me away.
Tiffany Reisz
#98. You have forbidden me to look for you, you may damn me, you may choose to discard me ... but by the right of the fact that I am alive, I must know that you are ... I must see you this once.
- Dagny Taggart
Ayn Rand
#99. Your life is a kind of laboratory where you're constantly experimenting with your own higher knowing, always increasing your capacity to design the life you choose. Human beings must create; it's hardwired. The question is, are you consciously creating or only sleepwalking through your human life?
David Emerald Womeldorff
#100. You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.
Kathe Koja
