Choices Quotes

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Always take the high road.

Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

I started making choices based on what I wanted, and didn’t feel like I needed to justify them. If I wanted to cut my hair, I did it. If I wanted to move to New York, I did it. If I wanted to take a spontaneous road trip, I did it. At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

I think once a person realizes that they are every day either sowing into their life either potential success, or sowing into their life potential failure, they would all of a sudden go okay, I've got to figure out what I'm going to do.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change.

When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.

My brother gave me some good advice. He said, "What do you want to do? Do that because there are no rules when it comes to love. There are absolutely no rules. Do what you want to do." I think that was the most liberating piece of advice, because love really is unpredictable. There's trap doors, all kinds of scary stuff, caves and bears... You never know what's going to happen so you just have to do what you feel is right in the end.

Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

Tomorrow's destiny becomes today's direction.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.

What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

On your daily journeys, listen to those inner signals that help you make the right choices no matter what anyone thinks.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Never eat at a place called 'Moms', but if the only other place in town has a sign that says 'Eats', go back to Moms.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.