Choices Quotes

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

Making a Different Choice Gives You the Opportunity to Live a Different Life.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

There are two ways love can go. You can be good to each other or you could not play fair.

It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

I don't think every person is going to have the same twelve, but I think out of the twelve I have, nine of them every person will have. Three of them are a little bit of an option, but I say go get your own three, it's no problem.

I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity is evoking genuine emotion across life - the sadness, passion, love, sense of loss, missed opportunities, and confusion even. All of this helps us realize that our choices do impact the lives that we eventually lead.

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.

The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You've got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

He chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its outcome.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.

Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;To each they offer gifts after his will,Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;I, in my pleached garden watched the pompForgot my morning wishes, hastilyTook a few herbs and apples, and the DayTurned and departed silent. I too lateUnder her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

You are the sum total of your choices.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.

Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.

Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.