choices quotes

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

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

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

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

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.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

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

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.