#Choice Quotes

“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.”

“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.”

“I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.”

“A sympathy in choice.”

“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.”

“The will of man is by his reason sway'd.”

“All pride is willing pride.”

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”

“I must have libertyWithal, as large a charter as the wind,To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.”

“DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.”

“Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?”

“Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of”

“For she had eyes and chose me.”

“Leave us to our free election.”

“I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.”

“I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.”

“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”

“the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.”

“So every bondman in his own hand bearsThe power to cancel his captivity.”

“Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.”

“O hell! to choose love with another's eye.”

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

“I have more care to stay than will to go.”

“Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”

“There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.”

“Of all the fair resort of gentlemenThat every day with parle encounter me,In thy opinion which is worthiest love?”

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

“How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.”

“When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace”

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”

“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.”

“Direct not him whose way himself will choose;'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.”

“You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.”

“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”

“Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.”

“Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.”

“When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.”

“Do I want to be right or be happy?”

“Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you... they care about their own well-being, not yours”

“England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.”

“What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.”

“Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.”

“In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.”

“Every choice you make has an end result.”

“Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.”

“The problem with using force in our lives is that we always create a counterforce. For example, If you're with a child and the child says, "I hate you," which is a very low energy, and you respond with, "I hate you too," you have lowered the collective energy that you are both in, and both of you will he weakened. Whereas, if you respond to, "I hate you," with love, which is what, instinctively, we know what to do, then we can dissolve and dissipate that hatred.”

“You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.”

“You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose”

“Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.”