Choice Quotes

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.

It's always a good idea to sit at the fun table.

It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

We always have a choice.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Use wisely your power of choice.

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, yourgreatest asset or your greatest liability

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude... When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me.

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.

I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner.

Happiness is not something you find, but rather something you create.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.

Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.