Choices

Choice is the most powerful tool we have. Everything boils down to choice. We exist in a field of infinite possibilities. Every choice we make shuts an infinite number of doors and opens an infinite number of doors. At any point we can change the direction of our lives by a simple choice. It is all in our hands, our hearts, and our minds. - Unknown

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices. - Albus Dumbledore

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K. Rowling

It's hard to make a choice between two blind dogs. - Irish Proverb

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. - Charles Caleb Colton

Look at the choices you have, as opposed to the choices that have been taken away from you. Because in those choices, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things. - Michael J. Fox

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. - James Allen

No matter what the situation, remind yourself “I have a choice. - Deepak Chopra

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. - Alfred A. Montapert

One of the most difficult choices to make is whether you should just move on or hold on a little longer. - Unknown

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you. - Jacqueline Carey

The choosy sometimes get the dregs. - Japanese Proverb

The difficulty in life is the choice. - George Moore

The future is not fixed, and my choices are my own. - Dinobot

The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. - Unknown

The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. - Charles Lamb

The more you pick and choose, the more you stand to lose. - Yiddish Proverb

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice. - Elizabeth Gilbert

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot

There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroads. Afraid. Confused. Without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. - Lucas Scott

There are times when the only choices you have left are bad ones. - Unknown

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision. - Herbert V. Prochnow

To choose, is to will one thing before another; and to will, is to bend our souls to the having or doing of that which they see to be good. - Richard Hooker

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. - Patrick Ness

We all have dark desires, yearnings for vengeance; and you must remember how those feelings stirred your blood... because what marks the line between good and evil is the choice not to act on them. - Zeddicus Zul Zorander

We are free up to the point of choice, and then the choice controls the chooser. - Mary Crowley

We choose our own path. Our values and our actions, they define who we are. - Stefan Salvatore

What happens if your choice is misguided? You must try to correct it. But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it. - Libba Bray

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose. - Jarod Kintz

When you can’t have what you choose, you just choose what you have. - Owen Wister

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. - Philip Pullman

When you make a choice, you change the future. - Deepak Chopra

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. -  Dr. Wayne W Dyer

You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow I to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you town. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you. - Josh Shipp

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don’t have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn’t mean they apply to you. - Rick Yancey

You've got choices...but if you make the wrong ones, it'll haunt you for the rest of your life. - Sam Winchester

Choice - Quotes

A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves. - Dave Galanter

Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself. - Caroline M. Myss

Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey ... I have come to understand that that is what life is all about – journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong. - Mary Balogh

We're not hurtling down a pre-determined path towards a foregone conclusion. We people, all of us, we make thousands of decisions a day, little ones, tiny ones... You take all those choices times all the people in the world... and you have to conclude the future's not set. It can't be. And that's the best part about being alive: it's always new, it's always surprising! - Joe Dubois

Choices - Quotes

A man has to know he had a choice before he can enjoy what he chose. - Ken Kesey

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. - Hunter S. Thompson

Any time choice is restricted in some way, there is bound to be someone, somewhere, who is deprived of the opportunity to pursue something of personal value. - Barry Schwartz

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself. - Bernard Lonergan

Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose. - Harold O. J. Brown

Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are and what we care about. - Barry Schwartz

Choices determine character. - Brandon Mull

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts. - Patrick Ness

Did it ever occur to you that you're so caught up in trying to make the right choice that you've never stopped to consider the possibility that there may not be a right choice, or a wrong choice, just a bunch of choices? - Jack PcPhee

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing. - Jean Rostand

He who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides. - Henri Frederic Amiel

If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. - Robert Fritz

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Choices - Quotes

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behavior and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! - Greg Anderson

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will soon render it easy and agreeable. - Pythagoras

Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. - Lord Samuel

Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit? - Gary Ryan Blair

Every choice you make gives you a chance to pave your own road. - Oprah Winfrey

Every choice you make has an end result. - Zig Ziglar

I choose … To live by choice, not by chance; To make change, not excuses; To be motivated, not manipulated; To be useful, not used; To excel, not compete. I chose self-esteem, not self-pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, not the random opinion of others. - Unknown

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on. - Unknown

If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice! - Neil Peart

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. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It’s your choice how you live your life. - Unknown

Many of life’s circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey. - Charles Millhuff

Not caring what other people think is one of the best choices you'll ever make in life. - Unknown

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

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice. - Abbe D'Allainval

The world revolves around choices made by people. Choice is the cause; and the results we obtain are the effects of those choices made earlier. - Unknown

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Denis Waitley

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. - Oprah Winfrey

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. - Unknown

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. - Epictetus

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. - Thornton Wilder 

We have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. - Charles R. Swindoll

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfil the deepest capacities of our real selves. - Thomas Merton

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder. - W. J. Slim

While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices. - Russell M. Nelson

You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. - Barbara Hall

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones. - Greg Anderson

You may not be able to choose your lot in life, but you can choose how to handle your lot. - Unknown

Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. - Alfred Montapert

Your choices should feel comfortable or they aren’t your choices at all. - David Baird 

Choose You This Day

Choice. What choices do we have and what do we do with these choices? We can ponder endlessly how much life is predetermined, how we are limited by heredity, intellect, social status, environment, economics. That is not the issue here; nor do I believe that it is important. However limited the choices, what matters is what we do with the choices we have. 

I believe we have a great deal of choice; that most of us do not make the most of these choices and that we tend to live our lives based on other people’s decisions and expectations. I believe that too often we lack the courage to act on our decisions. I believe this freedom to choose is one of the most important aspects of our lives, and that to act responsibly on those choices determines the success or failure of our lives. 

All choice combines freedom with responsibility; they are inseparable. We pay a price for all our decisions and our indecisions, but we have the individual freedom to determine for ourselves when the price is too high. 

Each day bring new opportunities for choice. Each day brings countless decisions to be made. I submit that all choices matter and that the potential for a better life is all around us. It is by the choices we make – the large, the small, the important, and the seemingly trivial, that we determine who we are and the quality of our lives. I believe we become the sum of our choices. 

Let’s talk about choice and some of the areas in which we can exercise our freedom to choose. 

We can choose love. We can decide who matters in our life; we can nurture the relationships we care about. We can make time for the people we love. We can find new people to love. 

Choose to have more love in your life. 

We can choose health – both mental and physical. Again, we choose not from our limitations, but from the freedom we do have. We can choose not to abuse our bodies, how we spend our days. We can choose not to whine about imagined aches and pains. 

Choose good health. 

We can choose to be happy. If you are unhappy, it is your fault. It is your responsibility, no one else’s. If you permit someone to make you unhappy, you choose to do so. I believe we are most influenced by other people in this area; only you know what makes you happiest. 

Choose to be happy. 

We can choose to have fun, to be spontaneous. We can choose to dream. In the words from South Pacific, “If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” 

Dream your own dream. 

I would persuade you to make choices and have the courage to act on those choices. Remember that choice means to select the best part, to discard that which is not. I would persuade you to make deletions in your life. If someone consistently makes you uncomfortable or unhappy, why are they a part of your life? If you are unhappy with your life, are you looking for ways to make it better? 

Choose what you want in your life and what you do not. 

All choices involve responsibility for those choices. We have to pay our dues. I believe in choice for myself. I believe in choice for other people. I believe we have the right and the freedom to make our own decisions – not from selfish motivations, but from our own uniqueness and integrity. 

We become the sum of our choices. It is your choice..... 

- Jean Cole Stayton 

The Choice Is Ours

              Life is all about choices and the world revolves around choices made by people.

             However, while we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices. Choice is the cause; and the results we obtain are the effects of those choices made earlier. Our choice determines the consequences. 

              Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. We are what we are because of the conscious and subconscious choices we have made.

              We may not be able to choose our lot in life, but we can choose how to handle our lot. Although we cannot choose our external circumstances, we can always choose how we respond to them and we can choose how we live our life. 

              We can live a full and happy life, or we can just exist in life, drifting on life’s shores. The choice is ours.